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Definition: Miry |
MiryAdjective1. (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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "miry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MirySynonyms: boggy (adj), marshy (adj), mucky (adj), muddy (adj), quaggy (adj), sloughy (adj), swampy (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: muddiest (geography), slimier (geography), slimiest (geography). |
Crosswords: Miry |
| English words defined with "miry": Lutose ♦ Miriness ♦ Slabby, Sludy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "miry": cienega ♦ Highgate. (references) |
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| "Miry" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Miry" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
miry run country club | 10 |
miry run | 8 |
miry | 5 |
miry run golf course | 4 |
miry run golf | 4 |
apartment miry run | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "miry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me baltë (mucky, muddy, slushy), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, sordid, squalid, waste), i ndotur (grimy, hole-in-the-wall, impure, sludgy, smutty, spotted), baltak (muddy, slimy, sloughy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مورط في, متوحل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кален (feculent, muddy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, sticky, tempered, thick), оплескан с кал, блатист (boggy, logged, paludal, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, spongy, swampy, uliginose, uliginous). (various references) | |
Czech | zablácený (muddy), blátivý (muddy, soft, splashy). (various references) | |
Danish | mudret (muddy, silty, slimy, sludgy), slamagtig (muddy, silty, slimy, sludgy). (various references) | |
Dutch | modderig (muddy). (various references) | |
Finnish | liejuinen (muddy). (various references) | |
French | bourbeux. (various references) | |
German | sumpfig (boggy, fenny, marshily, marshy, swampy), schlammig (muddily, muddy, oozy, slimily, slimy, sludgy), kotig (filthy, mirily). (various references) | |
Greek | βορβορώδησ (mucky, puddle), βορβορώδης (muddy, silty, slimy, sludgy), λασπώδησ (loamy, muddy, plashy, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slushy, splashy), λασπώδης (muddy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרופש (fouled, muddy, slushy, splashy, turbid), רפש (befouled, muddy, slushy, turbid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sáros (dirty, mired, muddy, oozy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, to be hot). (various references) | |
Italian | fangoso (dirty, foul, foully, grimy, muddy, slimy, sludgy, smutty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), limoso (loamy, muddy, silty, slimy, sludgy), lamacento (muddy, mushy, oozy, poachy, puddly, quaggy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, squashy), enlameado (muddy, sludgy), cheio de lama (sloppy). (various references) | |
Romanian | plin de noroi (dirty, muddy, splashy), cu noroi. (various references) | |
Russian | топкий (marshy, muddy, sloughy, squashy), грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious), болотистый (boggy, fenny, marshy, mossy, slimy, squashy, swampy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kaljav (muddy, soil), blatnjav (muddy, puddly, sludgy). (various references) | |
Spanish | fangoso (boggy, Fenny, muddy, splashy). (various references) | |
Swedish | gyttjig (muddy, oozy, slimy), dyig (muddy, oozy, slimy). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเป็นโคลนตม. (various references) | |
Turkish | pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), batak (bog, boggy, gutter, in carey street, marsh, mire, morass, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp), çamurlu (muddy, plashy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, turbid, uliginose). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), болотистий (boggy, marshy, moorish, mossy, paludal, plashy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy), багнистий (oozy, queachy, spongy, squashy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lầy bùn đê tiện, bẩn thỉu (crummy, dirtily, dirty, filthy, grubby, messy, mucky, sordid, villainous). (various references) | |
Welsh | tomlyd (dirty), lleibiog. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lutosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 47, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai en th diekbolh autou kai en th epistrofh autou kai en th uperarsei autou ou mh ugiaswsin eiV alaV dedontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In litoribus autem eius et in palustribus non sanabuntur quia in salinas dabuntur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe in brynkis therof and in mareisis thei shuln not be helid, for thei shuln be youen in to salt places. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 47, Verse 11 |
| Bulgarian | Но тинестите и блатистите му места няма да се изцерят; ще бъдат предадени на сол. |
| Cebuano | Apan ang mga lapukon nga dapit niini, ug ang mga lamakan niini, dili mamaayo; sila pagabiyaan nga mahimong asin. |
| Croatian | A moèvare onoga mora i njegove bare neæe ozdraviti: bit æe za sol. |
| Danish | Men dets Sumpe og Vandhuller skal ikke blive sunde; af dem skal udvindes Salt. |
| Dutch | Doch haar modderige plaatsen en haar moerassen zullen niet gezond worden, zij zijn tot zout overgegeven. |
| Finnish | Sen rämeet ja lätäköt eivät parane: ne jätetään suolan valtaan. |
| French | Ses marais et ses fosses ne seront point assainis, ils seront abandonnés au sel. |
| German | Aber die Teiche und Lachen daneben werden nicht gesund werden, sondern gesalzen bleiben. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, dlo ki nan lagon yo ak nan ma dlo ki sou rivaj la p'ap dous. Y'ap rete ak tout gwo sèl yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi air di rawa-rawa dan paya-paya di sepanjang pantai itu tidak akan menjadi tawar, melainkan tetap merupakan sumber garam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi arungannya dan tubirnya tiada akan tawar, melainkan akan asin juga. |
| Maori | Otiia e kore e waimaori nga wahi oru o reira, me nga repo o reira; ka tukua atu ki te tote. |
| Norwegian | Men myrene og pyttene der skal ikke bli sunde; de skal bare være til å utvinne salt av. |
| Portuguese | Mas os seus charcos e os seus pântanos não sararão; serão deixados para sal. |
| Rumanian | Mlawtinile wi gropile ei nu se vor vindeca, ci vor fi lqsate pradq sqrii. |
| Spanish | Sus pantanos y lagunas no serán saneados, pues quedarán para salinas. |
| Swedish | Men gölar och dammar där skola icke bliva sunda, utan skola tjäna till saltberedning. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "miry": quagmiry. (additional references) | |
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"Miry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eiry, hiry, hiryu, imfy, imr, imy, iry, magry, mairy, marby, mardy, marey, marmy, marvy, maury, mavry, mawry, Mbiyu, Mcirdy, meery, megry, megy, merey, mergy, meri, mermy, Mervy, Mery, micy, midry, Midy, mihr, miky, miqy, mirby, mirc, mird, Mirey, mirf, Mirfyn, mirg, mirh, Miric, Mirj, mirk, mirl, mirp, mirq, mirri, mirrie, mirry, mirs, mirt, mirv, Mirys, mirz, Misry, mity, mivy, mixy, miy, mizy, Morby, mormy, morny, Mowry, mugry, Murdy, murly, mursy, Mutry, myr, Myrfyn, myrie, myyr, Niri, smiri, ymir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rimy. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-r-y" | |
-1 letter: mir, rim. | |
-2 letters: mi, my. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-r-y" | |
+1 letter: grimy, mirky. | |
+2 letters: crimpy, firmly, grimly, lyrism, misery, myriad, myrica, primly, ramify, smirky, trimly. | |
+3 letters: furmity, grimily, imagery, lyrisms, merrily, metrify, micrify, midyear, miliary, mimicry, mirkily, miserly, misrely, mortify, murkily, myriads, myricas, myrrhic, mythier, primacy, primary, primely, pyramid, rhyming, roomily, scrimpy, semidry, shrimpy, squirmy, thymier, trisomy, yttrium, yummier. | |
+4 letters: acrimony, agrimony, arythmia, arythmic, biometry, boyarism, cramoisy, creamily, cronyism, dairyman, dairymen, dreamily, embryoid, emissary, enormity, fairyism, frumpily, fumitory, gorblimy, graymail, grumpily, hermitry, imparity, impurely, impurity, infirmly, isometry, laminary, lampyrid, limberly, limitary, luminary, lyricism, lyriform, majority, marrying, maturity, micrurgy, midstory, midyears, military, milliary, minatory, ministry, minority, misandry, miscarry, misentry, mislayer, missilry, mistryst, molarity, monitory, morality, morbidly, moronity, morosity, myriapod, myriopod, myrmidon, pyramids, pyriform, quagmiry, ramosity, remissly, remodify, rhythmic, rimosely, rimosity, rowdyism, royalism, seminary, shimmery, smarmily, smithery, stormily, summitry, temerity, tyramine, vomitory, yttriums. | |
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