drizzly

adj

drizzly

adj

Etymology From drizzle + -y.

1

Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.

  • Thursday, January 21, was a miserable, wet, drizzly day; the thaw started fairly rapidly and transport began to move again.1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
  • On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
Synonyms
drippy

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