different between miry vs mirky

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)

1. 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."

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

1. Alternative form of mery

Adverb

miry

1. Alternative form of mery

English

Adjective

mirky (comparative mirkier, superlative mirkiest)

1. Alternative form of murky

Anagrams

• Kimry