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mixen

mixen noun: a compost heap or dunghill.

Noun

mixen (plural mixens)

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

mixen meaning in Tamil

mixen in Tamil

எருக்கும்பி

Examples of mixen in a sentence

  • Of those children he the heads cut off, and under the prison's mixen laid their bodies.1907, Benjamin Thorpe(translator), Sæmundr Sigfússon (original), The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Edda of Snorre...
  • 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.1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (Brooks)/Chapter XVI, Chapter XVI:

Forms of mixen

pluralmixens

Origin of 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”).

Words formed from mixen

Questions about mixen

What does mixen mean?
Mixen means a compost heap or dunghill.
What is mixen in Tamil?
Mixen in Tamil is எருக்கும்பி. See Mixen meaning in Tamil.
How do you use mixen in a sentence?
Of those children he the heads cut off, and under the prison's mixen laid their bodies.
What part of speech is mixen?
Mixen is a noun.
What is the plural of mixen?
The plural of mixen is mixens.

Words near mixen in the dictionary

  1. mixedness
  2. mixedwood
  3. mixedwoods
  4. mixel
  5. mixels
  6. mixen
  7. mixens
  8. mixer
  9. mixer tap
  10. mixer taps
  11. mixer-settler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mixen (page history and authors); mixen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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