Miry

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmʌɪ(É™)ɹi/
• Rhymes: -aɪəri

Origin

From mire + -y.

Full definition of miry

Adjective

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 ….

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• miriness

Anagrams

• rimy