Citations:nizzle

English citations of nizzle

mizzle (cf German nieseln)

• 1920, Eda Lou Walton, Navaho Traditional Poetry: Its Form and Content, volume 2, page 658

  Now his holy skin, nizzling rain, A holy one […]

nizzled = sloshed

• 2011 April 4, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 224:

  Guy was tipsily nizzled and that would explain his cocky mouth. He came off as non-bothersome nobody, so we quest continued. I didn't want to shoot an innocent.

Scots citations of nizzle

• 1827, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 21, page 353:

  […] wrapt up a'thegither in a vile, cauld, nizzling, mizzling, drizzling Scotch mist, that utterly obliterates the creation, and reduces it to warse than Naething.