miry

See also: míry

English

Etymology

From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəɹi

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]

   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."

Synonyms

• (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Derived terms

• miriness

Translations

boggy, marshy

• Bulgarian: блатист (bg) (blatist)
• German: sumpfig (de), schlammig (de)
• Irish: ceachrach, draoibeach, lábach, lábánach, broghach

Anagrams

• Ymir, rimy

Middle English

Adjective

miry

1. Alternative form of mery

Adverb

miry

1. Alternative form of mery