mizzle

Etymology 1

Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

verb

1. (intransitive, now dialectal, UK, Canada, US) To rain in very fine drops.

noun

1. Misty rain or drizzle.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).

verb

1. (chiefly Britain) To abscond, scram, flee.
   As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled. 19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913
   1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
2. (intransitive) To yield.
3. (transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)