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MIXEN

Definition: MIXEN

MIXEN

Noun

1. A compost heap; a dunghill.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MIXEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Etymology: Mixen \Mix"en\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox, dung, filth; akin to English mist. See Mist.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: MIXEN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Uncleanness

Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MIXEN

Non-English Usage: "MIXEN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (blend, mingle, mix, shuffle), German (mix).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MIXEN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mixen

6

mixen mp3

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "MIXEN"

Words rhyming with "MIXEN" (pronounced 'Mix"en'): Affrighten, Baken, Barken, Bedizen, Beechen, Bequethen, Birchen, Bolden, Boughten, boxen, Bracken, Breaden, Cheapen, Cheven, Chicken, Closen, Coarsen, Cosen, Crooken, Deafen, Dusken, Embolden, Encolden, Fielden, flaxen, Fleeten, Floren, Flowen, Fordrunken, foreshorten, Foughten, Fraken, freshen, frighten, Furzen, Geten, Gilden, Glassen, Glazen, Gliden, groschen, harken, hearten, heighten, hempen, Henen, laden, leaden, Leten, Leven. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MIXEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-x"

-1 letter: mien, mine, minx, nixe.

-2 letters: men, mix, nim, nix.

-3 letters: em, en, ex, in, me, mi, ne, xi.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-x"
 

+1 letter: meninx, minxes.

 

+2 letters: examine, taximen, unmixed, unmixes.

 

+3 letters: anoxemia, anoxemic, bemixing, examined, examinee, examiner, examines, exhuming, exonumia, hexamine, intermix, monoxide, panmixes, remixing.

 

+4 letters: affixment, anoxemias, endomixis, examinant, examinees, examiners, examining, exampling, exanimate, exciseman, excisemen, exempting, exemption, extermine, hexamines, minimaxes, monoxides, premixing, reexamine, sixteenmo, tamoxifen, unmixable.

 

+5 letters: affixments, complexing, complexion, examinable, examinants, excitement, exclaiming, exemptions, exhumation, experiment, extermined, extermines, intermixed, intermixes, overmixing, reexamined, reexamines, sixteenmos, tamoxifens, taxonomies, unexamined, xenogamies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MIXEN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 58 45 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    -..-    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01011000 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#88 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0058 0045 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4743583948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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