mixtryn.
/ˈmɪkstri/, U.S. /ˈmɪkstri/ U.S. regional (southern).
A mixture.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture
mingingOE
mungc1175
meddlingc1384
mellaya1400
mixture?a1425
commixtion?a1439
medley1440
brothc1515
mingly1545
mingle1548
maslin1574
miscellane1582
commixture1590
flaumpaump1593
salad1603
miscellany1609
common1619
cento1625
misturea1626
mixtil1654
concrete1656
contemperation1664
ragout1672
crasis1677
alloy1707
mixtible1750
galimatias1762
misc.1851
syllabub1859
mixtry1862
cocktail1868
blend1883
admix1908
mix-up1918
mix1959
meld1973
katogo1994
1862 Southern Literary Messenger Aug. 471/2 Sich a rich dust you nuver seen, and sich an outdacious stink you nuver smelt. It was a mixtry ov uvry scent in the round world.
a1883 G. W. Bagby Old Virginia Gentleman (1911) 306 Doubled and twisted, and tied, and turned, and tacked, and tangled into forty-'leven thousand double bow-knots. By jings! it was a mixtery.
1899 C. W. Chesnutt Conjure Woman 151 I'll gib you some kin' er mixtry fer ter make 'im fergit.
1928 J. M. Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary 124 I ain' never seen no man get loose from a 'oman what wears dis mixtry.
1937 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (at cited word) A mixtry of purple and white Rhododendrons.
1939 Tennessee: Guide to State (Federal Writers' Project) 458 The ‘mixtry’ is eaten with a knife or sopped up with a biscuit.
1962 W. Faulkner Reivers 294 Both act like the mixtry of the other just makes it worse.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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