misly
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]misly (comparative more misly, superlative most misly)
- Alternative spelling of mizzly
- 1667 February 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 146:
- As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.