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mixens

mixens is the plural of mixen.

Meaning of mixen

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

Questions about mixens

What is mixens the plural of?
Mixens is the plural of mixen.

Words near mixens in the dictionary

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

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