mixen

English

Etymology

From Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (dung, filth), from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (to urinate); akin to German Mist (manure).

Noun

mixen (plural mixens)

  1. A compost heap; a dunghill.
    • Alfred Lord Tennyson
      If we have fish at all
      Let them be gold; and charge the gardeners now
      To pick the faded creature from the pool,
      And cast it on the mixen that it die.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mixen in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

mixen

  1. Plural form of mix

Verb

mixen

  1. mix
    (Brabantian):
    Edet na al gemixt jong?!
    Have you now already mixed it?!

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪksn̩/, /ˈmɪksən/
  • Hyphenation: mi‧xen

Verb

mixen (third-person singular simple present mixt, past tense mixte, past participle gemixt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to mix (to stir two or more substances together)
  2. (mix) to mix (to combine several tracks)

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to stir substances): mischen
  • (to combine several music tracks): mischen

Further reading

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