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mixish

mixish adjective: like or characteristic of a mix.

Adjective

mixish (comparative more mixish, superlative most mixish)

  1. Like or characteristic of a mix.
    • There the cats and the dogs are all able to talk, When you meet 'em together, out taking a walk. There the roses are green—and the leaves may be pink; And things are so “mixish” it scares you to think.1890, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas
    • In the woris of one informant, these people are all, "a sort of reddish mixish people", a mixture, judged by their own accounts, of Amerindian, Dutch and African.1981, Ian Robertson, The Dutch linguistic legacy and the Guyana/Venezuela border question

Forms of mixish

comparativemore mixish
superlativemost mixish

Origin of mixish

From mix + -ish.

Questions about mixish

What does mixish mean?
Mixish means like or characteristic of a mix.
What part of speech is mixish?
Mixish is an adjective.

Words near mixish in the dictionary

  1. mixing up
  2. mixingness
  3. mixings
  4. mixins
  5. mixis
  6. mixish
  7. mixite
  8. mixites
  9. mixities
  10. mixity
  11. mixling

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