Mizzling

[Lee1962]

Mizzling; this is a word that only my immediate family seem to use in the area where I live, Doncaster in northern England. It means when there's fine, spray-like drizzle, and it's misty. I'm wondering if people have any other terms for this type of weather?

[Terminal Moraine]

It's a term used in these parts too though not sure how widespread. It's certainly well used in my family as it's a frequent occurrence here.

[JeffC]

We use same term for that ppn between mist and drizzle...although maybe I'm influenced by having a father from Manchester and a mother from Nottingham...

[Nights King]

The locals round here just call it Mendip mist.

[Costa Del Fal]

Had mizzling frequently whilst living in Cornwall especially in winter.

[Cloud 10]

I'm pretty sure the word mizzle was "invented" by Francis Wilson.

[TheMoon]

I'd never heard it before, but I instantly knew what was meant by it.  I like to define it as wet beard weather.

[Summer of 95]

I though it was a Cornish/Westcountry word, never heard it used round here. We get it, but I just know it as "that annoying soaking drizzle".

[Lee1962]

My grandmother was the one who seemed to use it all the time. She was from Staffordshire, so maybe the word originates from there.

[Methuselah]

The locals round here just call it Mendip mist.

My mother always called it 'Scotch mist'...

[Yarmy]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mizzle

 

 

Etymology

From Middle English misellen â€Ž(“to drizzleâ€). Cognate with Low German musseln â€Ž(“to mizzleâ€), Dutch miezelen â€Ž(“to drizzle, rain gentlyâ€). Of obscure origin, but apparently related to Middle Low German mes â€Ž(“urineâ€), Middle Dutch mes, mis â€Ž(“urineâ€), both from Old Saxon mehs â€Ž(“urineâ€), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- â€Ž(“urineâ€), from Proto-Germanic *mÄ«ganÄ… â€Ž(“to urinateâ€), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- â€Ž(“to urinateâ€). Compare also English micturate â€Ž(“to urinateâ€), Old Frisian mese â€Ž(“urineâ€), Low German miegen â€Ž(“to urinateâ€), Dutch mijgen â€Ž(“to urinateâ€), Danish mige â€Ž(“to urinateâ€).

Edited September 30, 2015 by Yarmy