mixish

English

Etymology

From mix +‎ -ish.

Adjective

mixish (comparative more mixish, superlative most mixish)

1. Like or characteristic of a mix.
   • 1890, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas:

     There the cats and the dogs are all able to talk, When you meet 'em together, out taking a walk. There the roses are green—and the leaves may be pink; And things are so “mixish” it scares you to think.

   • 1981, Ian Robertson, The Dutch linguistic legacy and the Guyana/Venezuela border question:

     In the woris of one informant, these people are all, "a sort of reddish mixish people", a mixture, judged by their own accounts, of Amerindian, Dutch and African.