miry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    mucky; swampy; soggy; boggy; quaggy; muddy; marshy; sloughy; sloppy; waterlogged; squashy.
    • 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

WordNet

Mir"y adjective
Etymology
From 2d Mire.
Definitions
  1. Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Webster 1913