Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
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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 […]
More examples (1)
Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."
Adjective
(of soil) soft and watery
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the ground was boggy under foot
a marshy coastline
More examples (6)
miry roads
wet mucky lowland
muddy barnyard
quaggy terrain
the sloughy edge of the pond
swampy bayous