different between drizzling vs hazy

English

Verb

drizzling

1. present participle of drizzle.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

Noun

drizzling (plural drizzlings)

1. An amount of liquid that is drizzled.
   • 2010, Miriam Nelson, Jennifer Ackerman, The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health (page 370)

     Make use of fresh herbs and spices, squeezes of citrus juice and zest, and spare drizzlings of olive oil instead of flavoring your food with a lot of added fat, salt, or sugar.

English

Etymology

From earlier hawsey (1625), a nautical term of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *hasi, *haswy, from Old English haswi? (“grey; ashen; dusky”), from Old English hasu (“dusky; grey; ashen”), from Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?s- (“bright grey”), surface analysis as haze +? -y; although Modern English haze is more likely a back-formation of hazy.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?he?zi/
• Rhymes: -e?zi

Adjective

hazy (comparative hazier, superlative haziest)

1. Thick or obscured with haze.

   a hazy view of the polluted city street

2. Not clear or transparent.
3. Obscure; confused; not clear.

   a hazy argument

   a hazy intellect

Synonyms

• (thick with haze): hazed; see also Thesaurus:nebulous
• (not clear or transparent): blurry, fuzzy, ill-defined; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
• (obscure, confused): ambiguous, equivocal; see also Thesaurus:vague

Derived terms

• hazily
• haziness

Translations

Further reading

• hazy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hazy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• yazh