{"id":12302,"date":"2008-10-08T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/mizzle.html"},"modified":"2008-10-08T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T08:30:11","slug":"mizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/08\/mizzle.html","title":{"rendered":"Mizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a choice word for our next rainy-weather day. I look forward to introducing my friends to the word Mizzle, a word which is a cross between drizzle and mist.<\/p>\n<p>It has a sinus-y sound to it, as if the word nasal wants to get in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>I have ever seen or heard this word used in a weather forecast. The more common terms to describe this type of weather would be &quot;fog&quot; or &quot;mist.&quot; &quot;Mist&quot; is a word I sometimes hear as a verb: &quot;It&#8217;s misting.&quot; That&#8217;s kind of a strange word, come to think of it. Mist doesn&#8217;t seem like an action. Unlike rain, which falls,&nbsp; mist just kinda floats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-mizzle","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}