See also: míry English Etymology From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y. Pronunciation (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/ Audio (Southern England):(file) Rhymes: -aɪəɹi Adjective miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest) Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […]. 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […] 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river." Synonyms (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy Derived terms miriness Miry Creek Translations boggy, marshy Bulgarian: блатист (bg) (blatist) German: sumpfig (de), schlammig (de) Irish: ceachrach, draoibeach, lábach, lábánach, broghach Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) Anagrams Ymir, rimy Middle English Adjective miry Alternative form of mery Adverb miry Alternative form of meryWikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.