mixen

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• enmix

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mixen

1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of mix

Verb

mixen

1. mix

   (Brabant):

   Edet na al gemixt jong?!

   Have you now already mixed it?!

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

Further reading

• “mixen” in Duden online