Definition of "mizzle" [miz•zle]

• To rain in fine, mistlike droplets; drizzle. (verb-intransitive)
• A mistlike rain; a drizzle. (noun)
• Chiefly British Slang To make a sudden departure. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I doubt the terms "woodshore" and "mizzle" pepper Young Adult fiction of the 21st century."
• "A mizzle, drizzle, haze, what's the difference between fog and mist, etc., etc. Simon Winchester: But the language and the dictionary therefore can almost inadvertently paint a portrait of the society that uses the language."
• "The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench."