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; a 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.

• 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.

• 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