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miry

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/

adj

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

  1. 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 […]