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mixen Now dial. or arch.|ˈmɪksən|
Also 1 micxsen, meoxin, -en, 1, 4–5 myxen, 3–5 mixne, 4 myxne, 5 myxon, 6 myxson, mickeson, mickson, 4–5, 7, 9 mexen, 7–9 dial. mixon, 9 dial. maxon, -en.
[OE. mixen str. fem.:—prehistoric *mihsinnja, f. *mihso-: see mix n.1 and -en3. A similar formation on the parallel stem *mihstu- (Goth. maihstus, OHG. mist dung) is OHG. mistunnea dunghill.]
1. A place where dung and refuse is laid; a dung-hill or laystall; also, a heap of dung, earth, compost, etc. used for manure; † dung and refuse from sheds and cow-stalls, etc. (obs.).
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xiii. 8 Ic delfo ymb hia & ic sendo micxseno. a1000ælfric Sigewulfi Interrog. xlix. (1888) 16 On þære nyðemestan fleringe wæs heora gangpyt & heora myxen. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋837 Though that hooly writ speke of horrible synne, certes hooly writ may nat been defouled, namoore than the sonne that shyneth on the Mixne [v.rr. myxen, myxene, mexen]. 1480Robt. Devyll 38 Into a foule donge myxen he her caryed. 1581in 5th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. i. App. 579/2 Let all the myxsons and annoyances be caryed away byffore the spryng do cum. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax 42 By turning a streame of water on the mickesons, he [Hercules] scowred away that in a weeke, that an hundred could scant haue done in a yeare. 1611Cotgr., Fumier, a mexen, dung-hill, heape of dung. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 53 The..rottennest mixen that was in all the street. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 173/1 A muck-hill is the place where the Dung is laid till it be carried into the field to manure the ground: some call it a Mixon. 1794J. Clark Agric. Heref. 23 The makings of mixens, however, is not properly attended to in general. 1865Gosse Land & Sea 12 Great mixens outside the doors, strewn with the shells of enormous limpets. 1881Blackmore Christowell xvi, He was turning up a mixen in a meadow near the lane. a1887Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 169 He had dug up a gallon of snakes' eggs in the ‘maxen’.
b. transf. and fig.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 337 The Epistler would needes..haue this mixen stirred. 1684Bp. W. Lloyd Hist. Acc. Ch. Govt. Pref. (b), The Gesta Pontificum, that Mixen of ill-contrived Forgeries, which perhaps was made before Bede's time. 1880T. Hardy Trumpet-Major xxxvi. III. 151 We will let it be buried in eternal mixens of forgetfulness.
c. Proverbs. † a cock on his own mixen: cf. dunghill n. 1 b. better wed over the mixen than over the moor: ‘better marry a neighbour than a stranger from distant parts’ (E.D.D.).
a1225Ancr. R. 140 Ase me seið, ‘Þet coc is kene on his owune mixenne’. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cheshire (1662) i. 174 Better wed over the Mixon then over the Moor. 1710Brit. Apollo No. 12. 3/2. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxi, ‘Better wed over the mixen as over the moor’, as they say in Yorkshire. 1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd xxii. I. 250.
2. A term of abuse or reproach to a woman or child: see quot. 1887. dial.
1764Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 173 Who told you as much, Mrs. Mixen? 1887T. Darlington Folk-Sp. S. Cheshire, Mexen, Mixen,..a term of reproach to a female. ‘Yo little mixen’. It seems to have originated as a comic substitute for vixen.
3. attrib., as mixen-cart, mixen-heap, mixen-hole; mixen-varlet (quasi-arch.), a term of abuse for a man.
1610Mirr. Mag., King Madan xi, I thinke the clowne that driues the mixen-cart Hath better hap than Princes such as I. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Mixen-hole, a midden hole. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags i. 13 Faugh, keep wide from me, mixen-varlet! 1903F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict., Mixen-heap, a dunghill. |