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miry
English
Etymology
From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ma?(?)?i/
- Rhymes: -a??ri
Adjective
miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)
- Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].
- 1934 George Orwell, Burmese Days:
- Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
Synonyms
- (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy
Derived terms
- miriness
Translations
Anagrams
- Ymir, rimy
Middle English
Adjective
miry
- Alternative form of mery
Adverb
miry
- Alternative form of mery
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firy
English
Etymology
fire +? -y
Adjective
firy (comparative more firy, superlative most firy)
- Obsolete form of fiery.
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