miry

adj

miry

adj

UK /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/

Etymology From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y.

1

Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.

Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

1 more example

Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy
Derived terms: mirily, miriness, Miry Creek, unmiry

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