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miry

adj
/ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from myry

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mire

    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 […].
    • summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]
    • Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA