miry

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌɪ(ə)ɹi/
• Rhymes: -aɪəri

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."

• (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy

• miriness

• Ymir, rimy

miry

1. Alternative form of mery

miry

1. Alternative form of mery