Weather words
What is smirr?
Smirr: rain so fine it is basically a rumour.
Scots for very fine, misty rain, the kind that drifts rather than falls.
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Scottish
“Just a smirr of rain on the hills.”
More about smirr
Smirr is Scotland’s version of mizzle: finer than drizzle and wetter than it looks.
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What I think of smirr
Smirr: rain so fine it is basically a rumour.
Smirr does not fall on you. It just quietly arrives everywhere.
Smirr: Scotland has a word for every grade of wet, and this is one of them.
Words people compare it with
- Mizzle: A mix of mist and drizzle: fine rain that hangs in the air.
- Haar: A cold sea fog that rolls in off the North Sea onto the east coast of Scotland and north east England.
- Dreich: Scots for dreary, grey, damp and miserable weather.
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