Drizzle vs. Mizzle

(ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

Example: ‘We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.’;

To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.

Example: ‘The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.’;

To cover by pouring in this manner.

Example: ‘The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.’;

(slang) To urinate.

(dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

Light rain.

. Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.

Example: ‘No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.’;

(slang) Water.

Example: ‘Stop drinking all of my drizzle!’;

A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.

To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.

To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.

A fine rain or mist.

very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

rain lightly;

Example: ‘When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant’;

moisten with fine drops;

Example: ‘drizzle the meat with melted butter’;

light rain falling in very fine drops

Example: ‘Scotland will be cloudy with patchy drizzle’; ‘a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m’;

(in cooking) a thin stream of a liquid ingredient trickled over food

Example: ‘raw mushrooms, thinly sliced and served with lemon, a little salt, and a drizzle of olive oil’;

rain lightly

Example: ‘it's started to drizzle’;

(in cooking) trickle a thin stream of (a liquid ingredient) over food

Example: ‘drizzle the clarified butter over the top’;

Drizzle is a light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds.

To rain in very fine drops.

To abscond, scram, flee.

(intransitive) To yield.

(transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

Misty rain or drizzle.

To rain in very fine drops; to drizzle.

To take one's self off; to go.

Example: ‘As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned,And then he mizzled.’;

Mist; fine rain.

very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

rain lightly;

Example: ‘When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant’;