mixen

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

mixen (plural mixens)

1. A compost heap or dunghill.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 36:

     [I]f 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.

   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:

     Something of this occurred to him even in his wrath with me, for he spoke very softly to the filly, who now could scarce subdue herself; but she drew in her nostrils, and breathed to his breath and did all she could to answer him.
     'Not too hard, my dear,' he said: 'led him gently down on the mixen. That will be quite enough.' Then he turned the saddle off, and I was up in a moment.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

     "I reckon that's the size o't," said Coggan, working along without looking up.
     "Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.

   • 1907, Benjamin Thorpe(translator), Sæmundr Sigfússon (original), The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Edda of Snorre Sturleson, The Lay of Volund:

     =To the chest they came, for the keys asked; manifest was their grudge, when therein they looked. Of those children he the heads cut off, and under the prison's mixen laid their bodies.

   • 1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (Brooks)/Chapter XVI, Chapter XVI:

     Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.

• “mixen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• enmix

Borrowed from English mix.

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mixen

1. plural of mix

mixen

1. mix

   (Brabant):

   Edet na al gemixt jong?!

   Have you now already mixed it?!

Borrowed from English mix, from Middle English mixen, partially inherited from Old English mixen, and partially from a backformation of Old French mixte, itself a borrowing from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere. Doublet of mischen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪksən/, [ˈmɪksn̩], [ˈmɪksən]

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• Hyphenation: mi‧xen

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

1. (transitive, especially of drinks) to mix (cause two or more substances to become combined or united)

   Synonym: mischen

2. (transitive, music) to mix (combine several tracks; produce a finished version)

   Synonym: mischen

• Mixer
• vermixen

• Mix

• “mixen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “mixen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “mixen” in Duden online
• “mixen” in OpenThesaurus.de

• myxen, meoxen

From meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”).

mixen f

1. a mixen; a dungheap; a dunghill

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: myxen, mixne, myxon, mixerne, mexen
  • English: mixen
  • Yola: mizen

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mixen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.