miry

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/

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

Translations

• German: sumpfig, schlammig

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