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mi·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterloggedadjective

    (of soil) soft and watery

    "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

Wiktionary

  1. miryadjective

    Relating to a mire, smeared with mud.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Miryadjective

    Etymology: from mire.

    Thou should’st have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse: thou should’st have heard in how miry a place, how she was bemoiled. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

    All men who lived lazy lives, and died natural deaths, by sickness or by age, went into vast caves under-ground, all dark and miry, full of noisome creatures, and there grovelled in endless stench and misery. William Temple.

    Deep, through a miry lane she pick’d her way,
    Above her ancle rose the chalky clay. John Gay, Trivia.

    So have I seen ill-coupled hounds
    Drag diff’rent ways in miry grounds. Jonathan Swift.

    Shall thou and I sit round about some fountain,
    Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks,
    How they are strain’d like meadows, yet not dry,
    With miry slime left on them by a flood? William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Miryadjective

    abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road

  2. Etymology: [From 2d Mire.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of miry in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of miry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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