promiscuousadj.adv.

Brit.

/prəˈmɪskjʊəs/, U.S.

/prəˈmɪskjəwəs/

Forms: 1500s– promiscuous, 1800s– permiscuous (nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 promikuosus (transmission error), pre-1700 promiscuis, pre-1700 promiscuouse, pre-1700 promiscuus, pre-1700 promixuous, pre-1700 promuscuous, pre-1700 1700s– promiscuous.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin prōmiscuus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōmiscuus common, shared, general, indiscriminate, (in grammar) of common gender ( < prō- pro- prefix¹ + miscēre to mix: see mix v.) + -ous suffix. Compare post-classical Latin promiscere to mix up (4th cent.). Compare also Middle French, French promiscue (a1592), French promiscueux (1893), Spanish promiscuo (mid 16th cent.), Portuguese promíscuo (1671), Italian promiscuo (a1535). Compare promiscous adj.

A. adj.

a. Done or applied with no regard for method, order, etc.; random, indiscriminate, unsystematic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > not discriminated

undistinct1534

promiscuous1570

muddy?1571

confounded1572

confuse1577

undistinguished1598

indistinct1604

indistinguished1608

confused1611

muddied1647

indiscriminate1649

indiscriminated1669

undiscriminated1768

unselect1826

unspecialized1874

1570 T. Norton Disclosing of Great Bull sig. B.iij (As most part of beastes be) redy to promiscuous & vnchosen copulations.

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 13 It is most profitable both for the Prince and Countrie, to vse a governed Companie, and not to permitt a promiscuous, stragling, & dispersed trade.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles xxiv. 184 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Common and promiscuous Lot both of Good Men, and Bad.

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xii. 84 In one promiscuous Carnage crush'd and bruis'd.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1772 I. 365 Johnson: Promiscuous hospitality is not the way to gain real influence.

1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks i. ii. 33 At Metz he [sc. Attila] involved in one promiscuous massacre priests and children.

1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. vii. 124 I'm not a man for weirdless nonsense and promiscuous dancing and good money thrown away on idle feasts.

1929 Oxf. Poetry 21 The loud sea freed From windless smooth restraints Cracks promiscuous volleys of whips.

1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May 12/8 Policies such as the peanut programme have survived..through ‘log-rolling’—the promiscuous vote swapping among farm members with different interests.

b. Of an agent or agency: making no distinctions; undiscriminating.In later use frequently with connotations of sense A. 1c.

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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective]

blinda1400

unchoosinga1586

undiscerning1589

unrespective1609

irrespecting1625

promiscuous1633

incurious1645

indistinct1650

irrespective1650

uncritical1659

indiscerning1664

undistinguishing1665

undistinguishable1702

unrefining1735

indiscriminating1754

undiscriminating1776

indiscriminate1792

unfastidious1816

rough1819

lumping1827

indistinguishing1828

unparticularizing1828

farraginous1837

imperceiverant1844

scattergun1845

undistinctive1851

indiscriminative1854

unselecting1895

scattershot1961

1633 E. Porter in Donne's Poems 405 Why should death, with a promiscuous hand, At one rude stroke impoverish a land?

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 310/1 Promiscuous Birds..feed on Flesh, Insects, Fruit, or Grain, as the Raven.

1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxiv. 255 The Dispensations of God's Providence towards Men..are very promiscuous.

a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. vi, in Wks. (1765) II. vi. 21 A well-discriminated landscape was..to be preferred to a distant and promiscuous azure.

1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 129 No clover sown, on account of promiscuous flocks of sheep, which are emphatically called pirates.

1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. 293 The diprotodont [type of dentition] obtains in the majority of the Australasian marsupials, and is associated usually with vegetarian or promiscuous diet.

1931 B. Marshall Father Malachy's Miracle ii. 24 He is famed for..his promiscuous association with gay young women.

1995 Daily Tel. 15 May 14/7 Customers are very promiscuous and may well sign up to schemes..and then get loyalty fatigue.

c. spec. Of a person or animal: undiscriminating in sexual relations. Also (of sexual intercourse, relationships, etc.): casual, characterized by frequent changes of sexual partner. Cf. promiscuity n. 2.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > promiscuous

harlotry1579

light o' love1589

trolloping1701

promiscuous1804

wutless1853

slutty1912

make-out1949

slack1951

swinging1964

bed-hopping1979

bonking1987

1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1119 He is..addicted to almost promiscuous Intercourse with women of all Classes.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 29 Better frig, howe'er the mind it shocks, Than from promiscuous fucking catch the pox.

1900 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. I. i. 5 People..still polyandrous or promiscuous in the relation of the sexes.

1912 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 13/2 The myrnonga is a person of more promiscuous habits [than the combo] who..prowls with furtiveness when the moon is young.

1924 C. Connolly Let. Dec. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 32 I am not promiscuous but I can't be loyal to an icicle.

1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. ii. ii. 130 One starts promiscuous and ends like one's grandfather, faithful to one woman.

1978 S. Herzel in P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood viii. 119 It is precisely because men can compartmentalize that they are more easily promiscuous than women.

2004 Metro 8 Nov. (London ed.) 15/4 Sperm from different males competes, especially among promiscuous animals such as chimpanzees.

2. Consisting of assorted parts or elements grouped or massed together without order; mixed and disorderly in composition or character; (with plural noun) of various kinds mixed together. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]

confusec1384

yblent1426

intermellé1487

farraginary1538

puddled1559

confused1576

promiscuous1579

pell-mell1584

ravelleda1586

mingle-mangle1589

rumblingc1598

skimble-skamble1598

huddle1601

plundered1601

promiscual1602

jumbled1611

promiscous1656

bedevilled1755

helter-skelter1785

muddly1829

hugger-mugger1840

wildered1853

pied1870

deurmekaar1871

mixed-up1888

screwed-up1942

snafu1942

scrambled1951

untogether1969

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed

medleya1400

intermellé1487

farraginary1538

hotchpotch1556

promiscuous1579

hotchpot1588

pied1594

motley1601

hodge-podge1602

promiscual1602

macaronic1611

farraginous1616

throughother1626

mishmash1652

promiscous1656

hotchpotchly1674

hodge-podging1772

hashy1781

mixty-maxty1786

motleyed1798

gallimaufrical1836

odd-and-end1836

chow-chow1844

speckled1845

ragbag1882

disherent1890

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] > specifically of a single thing

promiscuous1579

1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 316 We..rightlie deserue that barbarous, and vngodlie nations, shoulde..make vnmerciful hauocke of the promiscuous multitude.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 20 Hee told him that hee saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 8 It had an odde promiscuous Tone, As if h' had talk'd three parts in one.

1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 9 Sudden I heard a wild promiscuous Sound.

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 222 The characters of nations are very promiscuous in the temperate climates.

1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 209 The promiscuous multitude being by intellectual weakness prepared for the reception of mental poison.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. iii. 37 [Woodward] conceived..‘the strata to have settled down from this promiscuous mass’.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xx. 291 What Milverton contemptuously would call our miscellaneous and promiscuous essays.

1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel vii. 152 This promiscuous and desultory warbling of his must, one feels, be irritating to the precise German mind; there is no method in it.

1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 5 Pawed-at and gossiped-over By the promiscuous crowd.

3. Chiefly Grammar. Of common gender; of either sex, of both sexes. Cf. epicene adj. 1. rare.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes

bisexed1605

hermaphroditical1605

epicene1607

hermaphrodite1607

hermaphroditic1631

promiscuousa1637

androgynal1646

masculo-feminine1646

androgynous1651

ambosexous1656

hermaphroditish1764

androgyne1765

bisexual1793

hermaphrodital1823

heautandrous1837

amphigonic1876

intersexual1916

intersex1920

intersexed1921

harumphroditic1924

man-womanly1929

ambosexual1931

bi-gendered1976

a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. x, in Wks. (1640) III The Promiscuous, or Epicene, which understands both kindes.

1714 T. Ruddiman Rudim. Lat. Tongue i. 6 We have excepted out of the Number of Genders the Epicene or Promiscuous Gender.

1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. iii. vii. 130 There were three sexes, male, female and promiscuous.

2003 V. Law Hist. Linguistics in Europe iv. 71 There are epicene or promiscuous nouns, such as passer, ‘sparrow’.

†4. Chiefly slang (depreciative). That forms part of a mixed or undifferentiated company. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > ribald or scurrilous

foulOE

ribaldya1438

ribaldousc1440

villainous1470

ribald?a1500

ribaldious?1518

ribaldry1519

ribaldish?1533

rabulous1538

reprobriousa1539

ribaldrous1565

scurrile1567

profane1568

swearing1569

ribaldly1570

scurrilous1576

tarry1579

Fescennine verses1601

scogginly1620

ribaldrious1633

rotten in one's head1640

Billingsgate1652

promiscuous1753

blackguarding1789

blue1832

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [adjective] > miscellaneous (of company)

mixed1611

promiscuous1753

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] > including those who are

mixed1611

promiscuous1753

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxix. 210 One may see with half an eye, that he is no better than a promiscuous fellow.

1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 15 This, like the public inn, provides a treat, Where each promiscuous guest sits down to eat.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 58 ‘Go back to bed, you promiscuous old bird!’ ‘Promiscuous’ was just then a term in slang use.

†5. colloquial. Casual, careless (cf. sense B. 2). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > indifference > [adjective]

carelessOE

negligentc1390

recklessc1425

neutral1494

indifferent?1520

undifferentc1540

uncareful1560

unmindful1560

unaddicted1583

unmindful1585

perfunctory1602

disinteressed1603

come day, go day (God send Sunday)1616

disinteresteda1631

Laodicean1633

vacanta1639

unconcerned1645

easy1649

mawkish1679

indifferinga1694

concernless1706

unminding1714

nonchalanta1734

coolrife1768

uninterested1772

uncaring1786

tooth-picking1814

pococurante1815

pococurantish1821

insouciant1829

non-committal1829

don't-care1830

promiscuous1837

don't-carish1838

unpartial1840

noncurantist1882

noncuranta1913

casual1916

Gallionic1920

disengaged1958

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 361 I walked in..just to say good mornin', and went in a permiscuous manner up stairs, and into the back room.

1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 5 On the beach, where he will, in the most promiscuous and accidental manner, certainly go for a stroll.

a. Biology. Of a protein, organism, etc.: able to infect or interact with, or bind non-specifically to, a variety of hosts or targets.

ΚΠ

1972 Evolution 26 388 During such crises [sc. pollen shortage] oligolectic bees visit flowers taxonomically unrelated to their host plant. Such ‘promiscuous’ behaviour may provide local populations the chance to discover appropriate alternative pollen sources.

1979 Science 19 Oct. 296/3 It is not known whether this promiscuous binding occurs among the α and β subunits of A.

1995 Sci. Amer. Feb. 40/2 RNA polymerase is a rather promiscuous molecule, unable to distinguish between the promoter and other DNA sequences.

2005 Nature 9 June 750/3 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are exceptionally promiscuous with respect to the host plants they colonize.

b. Genetics. Designating a DNA sequence common to more than one of the genomes within a eukaryotic cell. Cf. promiscuity n. 4.

ΚΠ

1982 J. Ellis in Nature 21 Oct. 678/2 Promiscuous DNA is defined as a nucleotide sequence which occurs in more than one of the three membrane-bound organellar genetic systems of eukaryotic cells, and should be distinguished from the DNA of promiscuous plasmids, which can be transferred to a wide range of prokaryotic cells.

2001 Gene 271 193 A promiscuous nuclear sequence containing a mitochondrial DNA fragment was isolated from rice.

B. adv.

1. = promiscuously adv. 1; indiscriminately; at random. Now rare (colloquial in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]

pelly mellya1500

ribble-rabble?a1525

confusely1540

huddlea1555

confusedly1566

pell-mell1579

tag-rag1582

helter-skelter1593

promiscuously1593

pell-mell1596

confusively1599

mel-pella1600

promiscually1602

squimble-squamble1611

promiscuous1616

clutteringly1624

promiscously1635

perplexly1670

skimble-skamble1775

skimper-scamper1778

hodge-podge1848

hugger-mugger1880

rumble-jumble1887

muddledly1914

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]

indifferentlyc1374

indistinctlyc1420

confusedly?1531

undistinctly1548

confusely?c1550

without respect?c1550

without choice1576

intermixedlya1586

unrespectively1586

pell-mell1587

promiscuously1593

mixedly1597

indiscriminate1598

promiscually1602

swoopstake1603

promiscuous1616

irrespectively1624

muddily1648

indiscriminately1652

humdrum1660

indiscriminally1665

undistinguishingly1665

indeterminatelya1676

indiscriminatively1684

indistinguishably1689

indiscretely1698

indistinctively1699

undiscerningly1707

uncritically1763

indiscriminatingly1824

undiscriminatingly1894

unfastidiously1929

1616 R. S. in T. Adams Divine Herball (front matter) f. A4 Truely thou dost the world disclose, which growes, Promiscuous; here a Thorne, & there a Rose.

1695 J. Addison To the King 110 And Planks, and Arms, and Men promiscuous flow'd.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. ii. 191 Roast, and boil'd, when you promiscuous eat, When Fowl and Shell-fish in Confusion meet.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 24 Old age and infancy Promiscuous perished.

1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslie's Mag. Mar. 128/1 The harness was piled, promiscuous, upon the wagon tongue, soaking up the dew.

1939 W. Westrup in Outspan (Bloemfontein) 18 Aug. 87/1 I don't interfere if a man wants a bit o' meat in the close season, but I reckon he didn't oughter kill sorter promiscuous.

2. colloquial. = promiscuously adv. 2; without ceremony; casually. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > incidentally or by the way

incidently1529

occursively1592

emergently1660

en passant1665

incidentally1665

incidentarilya1670

casually1697

promiscuously1791

overly1825

promiscuous1826

the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adverb] > in unplanned manner

suddenly1340

of unwarninga1400

on, upon, rarely of, in (a) suddenty1469

casuallya1549

extemporea1556

of (upon) this sudden1572

extemporally1577

at (the or a) volley1578

on (or o') the volley1578

extrumpery1582

unpremeditately1607

extemporary1610

extempory1623

extemporarily1667

impromptu1669

ad aperturam libri1679

unpremeditatedly1694

impulsively1768

extemporaneously1791

promiscuously1791

spontaneously1799

on (also upon) the spur of the moment (or occasion, etc.)1801

spontaneous1810

promiscuous1826

improvisedly1851

off-handedly1876

at the first jet1878

off the cuff1927

off the top of one's head1939

off the wall1966

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii.xii. 170 I do wish you'd come in some day quite promiscuous.

1875 A. C. Swinburne Let. 5 Nov. (1960) III. 82 It turned up promiscuous when at last wanted after ten years.

1901 ‘A. Forbes’ Odd Fish 92 You get a barrel o' the reds, and send it aboard just permiscuous like.

1970 M. Chisholm McAllister says No xiv. 113 She walked her horse toward him and said: ‘Did you have to kill him?’.. ‘You think I'd shoot a man promiscuous?’ he asked gruffly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	promiscuous
释义	promiscuousadj.adv. Brit. /prəˈmɪskjʊəs/, U.S. /prəˈmɪskjəwəs/ Forms: 1500s– promiscuous, 1800s– permiscuous (nonstandard); Scottish pre-1700 promikuosus (transmission error), pre-1700 promiscuis, pre-1700 promiscuouse, pre-1700 promiscuus, pre-1700 promixuous, pre-1700 promuscuous, pre-1700 1700s– promiscuous. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin prōmiscuus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin prōmiscuus common, shared, general, indiscriminate, (in grammar) of common gender ( < prō- pro- prefix¹ + miscēre to mix: see mix v.) + -ous suffix. Compare post-classical Latin promiscere to mix up (4th cent.). Compare also Middle French, French promiscue (a1592), French promiscueux (1893), Spanish promiscuo (mid 16th cent.), Portuguese promíscuo (1671), Italian promiscuo (a1535). Compare promiscous adj. A. adj. 1. a. Done or applied with no regard for method, order, etc.; random, indiscriminate, unsystematic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > not discriminated undistinct1534 promiscuous1570 muddy?1571 confounded1572 confuse1577 undistinguished1598 indistinct1604 indistinguished1608 confused1611 muddied1647 indiscriminate1649 indiscriminated1669 undiscriminated1768 unselect1826 unspecialized1874 1570 T. Norton Disclosing of Great Bull sig. B.iij (As most part of beastes be) redy to promiscuous & vnchosen copulations. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 13 It is most profitable both for the Prince and Countrie, to vse a governed Companie, and not to permitt a promiscuous, stragling, & dispersed trade. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles xxiv. 184 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Common and promiscuous Lot both of Good Men, and Bad. 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xii. 84 In one promiscuous Carnage crush'd and bruis'd. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1772 I. 365 Johnson: Promiscuous hospitality is not the way to gain real influence. 1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks i. ii. 33 At Metz he [sc. Attila] involved in one promiscuous massacre priests and children. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen I. vii. 124 I'm not a man for weirdless nonsense and promiscuous dancing and good money thrown away on idle feasts. 1929 Oxf. Poetry 21 The loud sea freed From windless smooth restraints Cracks promiscuous volleys of whips. 1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May 12/8 Policies such as the peanut programme have survived..through ‘log-rolling’—the promiscuous vote swapping among farm members with different interests. b. Of an agent or agency: making no distinctions; undiscriminating.In later use frequently with connotations of sense A. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] blinda1400 unchoosinga1586 undiscerning1589 unrespective1609 irrespecting1625 promiscuous1633 incurious1645 indistinct1650 irrespective1650 uncritical1659 indiscerning1664 undistinguishing1665 undistinguishable1702 unrefining1735 indiscriminating1754 undiscriminating1776 indiscriminate1792 unfastidious1816 rough1819 lumping1827 indistinguishing1828 unparticularizing1828 farraginous1837 imperceiverant1844 scattergun1845 undistinctive1851 indiscriminative1854 unselecting1895 scattershot1961 1633 E. Porter in Donne's Poems 405 Why should death, with a promiscuous hand, At one rude stroke impoverish a land? 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 310/1 Promiscuous Birds..feed on Flesh, Insects, Fruit, or Grain, as the Raven. 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxiv. 255 The Dispensations of God's Providence towards Men..are very promiscuous. a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. vi, in Wks. (1765) II. vi. 21 A well-discriminated landscape was..to be preferred to a distant and promiscuous azure. 1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 129 No clover sown, on account of promiscuous flocks of sheep, which are emphatically called pirates. 1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. 293 The diprotodont [type of dentition] obtains in the majority of the Australasian marsupials, and is associated usually with vegetarian or promiscuous diet. 1931 B. Marshall Father Malachy's Miracle ii. 24 He is famed for..his promiscuous association with gay young women. 1995 Daily Tel. 15 May 14/7 Customers are very promiscuous and may well sign up to schemes..and then get loyalty fatigue. c. spec. Of a person or animal: undiscriminating in sexual relations. Also (of sexual intercourse, relationships, etc.): casual, characterized by frequent changes of sexual partner. Cf. promiscuity n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > promiscuous harlotry1579 light o' love1589 trolloping1701 promiscuous1804 wutless1853 slutty1912 make-out1949 slack1951 swinging1964 bed-hopping1979 bonking1987 1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1119 He is..addicted to almost promiscuous Intercourse with women of all Classes. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 29 Better frig, howe'er the mind it shocks, Than from promiscuous fucking catch the pox. 1900 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. I. i. 5 People..still polyandrous or promiscuous in the relation of the sexes. 1912 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 13/2 The myrnonga is a person of more promiscuous habits [than the combo] who..prowls with furtiveness when the moon is young. 1924 C. Connolly Let. Dec. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 32 I am not promiscuous but I can't be loyal to an icicle. 1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. ii. ii. 130 One starts promiscuous and ends like one's grandfather, faithful to one woman. 1978 S. Herzel in P. Moore Man, Woman, & Priesthood viii. 119 It is precisely because men can compartmentalize that they are more easily promiscuous than women. 2004 Metro 8 Nov. (London ed.) 15/4 Sperm from different males competes, especially among promiscuous animals such as chimpanzees. 2. Consisting of assorted parts or elements grouped or massed together without order; mixed and disorderly in composition or character; (with plural noun) of various kinds mixed together. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] confusec1384 yblent1426 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 puddled1559 confused1576 promiscuous1579 pell-mell1584 ravelleda1586 mingle-mangle1589 rumblingc1598 skimble-skamble1598 huddle1601 plundered1601 promiscual1602 jumbled1611 promiscous1656 bedevilled1755 helter-skelter1785 muddly1829 hugger-mugger1840 wildered1853 pied1870 deurmekaar1871 mixed-up1888 screwed-up1942 snafu1942 scrambled1951 untogether1969 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed medleya1400 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 hotchpotch1556 promiscuous1579 hotchpot1588 pied1594 motley1601 hodge-podge1602 promiscual1602 macaronic1611 farraginous1616 throughother1626 mishmash1652 promiscous1656 hotchpotchly1674 hodge-podging1772 hashy1781 mixty-maxty1786 motleyed1798 gallimaufrical1836 odd-and-end1836 chow-chow1844 speckled1845 ragbag1882 disherent1890 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] > specifically of a single thing promiscuous1579 1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 316 We..rightlie deserue that barbarous, and vngodlie nations, shoulde..make vnmerciful hauocke of the promiscuous multitude. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 20 Hee told him that hee saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 8 It had an odde promiscuous Tone, As if h' had talk'd three parts in one. 1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 9 Sudden I heard a wild promiscuous Sound. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 222 The characters of nations are very promiscuous in the temperate climates. 1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 209 The promiscuous multitude being by intellectual weakness prepared for the reception of mental poison. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. iii. 37 [Woodward] conceived..‘the strata to have settled down from this promiscuous mass’. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xx. 291 What Milverton contemptuously would call our miscellaneous and promiscuous essays. 1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel vii. 152 This promiscuous and desultory warbling of his must, one feels, be irritating to the precise German mind; there is no method in it. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 5 Pawed-at and gossiped-over By the promiscuous crowd. 3. Chiefly Grammar. Of common gender; of either sex, of both sexes. Cf. epicene adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes bisexed1605 hermaphroditical1605 epicene1607 hermaphrodite1607 hermaphroditic1631 promiscuousa1637 androgynal1646 masculo-feminine1646 androgynous1651 ambosexous1656 hermaphroditish1764 androgyne1765 bisexual1793 hermaphrodital1823 heautandrous1837 amphigonic1876 intersexual1916 intersex1920 intersexed1921 harumphroditic1924 man-womanly1929 ambosexual1931 bi-gendered1976 a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. x, in Wks. (1640) III The Promiscuous, or Epicene, which understands both kindes. 1714 T. Ruddiman Rudim. Lat. Tongue i. 6 We have excepted out of the Number of Genders the Epicene or Promiscuous Gender. 1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. iii. vii. 130 There were three sexes, male, female and promiscuous. 2003 V. Law Hist. Linguistics in Europe iv. 71 There are epicene or promiscuous nouns, such as passer, ‘sparrow’. †4. Chiefly slang (depreciative). That forms part of a mixed or undifferentiated company. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > ribald or scurrilous foulOE ribaldya1438 ribaldousc1440 villainous1470 ribald?a1500 ribaldious?1518 ribaldry1519 ribaldish?1533 rabulous1538 reprobriousa1539 ribaldrous1565 scurrile1567 profane1568 swearing1569 ribaldly1570 scurrilous1576 tarry1579 Fescennine verses1601 scogginly1620 ribaldrious1633 rotten in one's head1640 Billingsgate1652 promiscuous1753 blackguarding1789 blue1832 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [adjective] > miscellaneous (of company) mixed1611 promiscuous1753 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] > including those who are mixed1611 promiscuous1753 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxix. 210 One may see with half an eye, that he is no better than a promiscuous fellow. 1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 15 This, like the public inn, provides a treat, Where each promiscuous guest sits down to eat. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 58 ‘Go back to bed, you promiscuous old bird!’ ‘Promiscuous’ was just then a term in slang use. †5. colloquial. Casual, careless (cf. sense B. 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [adjective] carelessOE negligentc1390 recklessc1425 neutral1494 indifferent?1520 undifferentc1540 uncareful1560 unmindful1560 unaddicted1583 unmindful1585 perfunctory1602 disinteressed1603 come day, go day (God send Sunday)1616 disinteresteda1631 Laodicean1633 vacanta1639 unconcerned1645 easy1649 mawkish1679 indifferinga1694 concernless1706 unminding1714 nonchalanta1734 coolrife1768 uninterested1772 uncaring1786 tooth-picking1814 pococurante1815 pococurantish1821 insouciant1829 non-committal1829 don't-care1830 promiscuous1837 don't-carish1838 unpartial1840 noncurantist1882 noncuranta1913 casual1916 Gallionic1920 disengaged1958 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 361 I walked in..just to say good mornin', and went in a permiscuous manner up stairs, and into the back room. 1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 5 On the beach, where he will, in the most promiscuous and accidental manner, certainly go for a stroll. 6. a. Biology. Of a protein, organism, etc.: able to infect or interact with, or bind non-specifically to, a variety of hosts or targets. ΚΠ 1972 Evolution 26 388 During such crises [sc. pollen shortage] oligolectic bees visit flowers taxonomically unrelated to their host plant. Such ‘promiscuous’ behaviour may provide local populations the chance to discover appropriate alternative pollen sources. 1979 Science 19 Oct. 296/3 It is not known whether this promiscuous binding occurs among the α and β subunits of A. 1995 Sci. Amer. Feb. 40/2 RNA polymerase is a rather promiscuous molecule, unable to distinguish between the promoter and other DNA sequences. 2005 Nature 9 June 750/3 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are exceptionally promiscuous with respect to the host plants they colonize. b. Genetics. Designating a DNA sequence common to more than one of the genomes within a eukaryotic cell. Cf. promiscuity n. 4. ΚΠ 1982 J. Ellis in Nature 21 Oct. 678/2 Promiscuous DNA is defined as a nucleotide sequence which occurs in more than one of the three membrane-bound organellar genetic systems of eukaryotic cells, and should be distinguished from the DNA of promiscuous plasmids, which can be transferred to a wide range of prokaryotic cells. 2001 Gene 271 193 A promiscuous nuclear sequence containing a mitochondrial DNA fragment was isolated from rice. B. adv. 1. = promiscuously adv. 1; indiscriminately; at random. Now rare (colloquial in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb] pelly mellya1500 ribble-rabble?a1525 confusely1540 huddlea1555 confusedly1566 pell-mell1579 tag-rag1582 helter-skelter1593 promiscuously1593 pell-mell1596 confusively1599 mel-pella1600 promiscually1602 squimble-squamble1611 promiscuous1616 clutteringly1624 promiscously1635 perplexly1670 skimble-skamble1775 skimper-scamper1778 hodge-podge1848 hugger-mugger1880 rumble-jumble1887 muddledly1914 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb] indifferentlyc1374 indistinctlyc1420 confusedly?1531 undistinctly1548 confusely?c1550 without respect?c1550 without choice1576 intermixedlya1586 unrespectively1586 pell-mell1587 promiscuously1593 mixedly1597 indiscriminate1598 promiscually1602 swoopstake1603 promiscuous1616 irrespectively1624 muddily1648 indiscriminately1652 humdrum1660 indiscriminally1665 undistinguishingly1665 indeterminatelya1676 indiscriminatively1684 indistinguishably1689 indiscretely1698 indistinctively1699 undiscerningly1707 uncritically1763 indiscriminatingly1824 undiscriminatingly1894 unfastidiously1929 1616 R. S. in T. Adams Divine Herball (front matter) f. A4 Truely thou dost the world disclose, which growes, Promiscuous; here a Thorne, & there a Rose. 1695 J. Addison To the King 110 And Planks, and Arms, and Men promiscuous flow'd. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. ii. 191 Roast, and boil'd, when you promiscuous eat, When Fowl and Shell-fish in Confusion meet. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 24 Old age and infancy Promiscuous perished. 1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslie's Mag. Mar. 128/1 The harness was piled, promiscuous, upon the wagon tongue, soaking up the dew. 1939 W. Westrup in Outspan (Bloemfontein) 18 Aug. 87/1 I don't interfere if a man wants a bit o' meat in the close season, but I reckon he didn't oughter kill sorter promiscuous. 2. colloquial. = promiscuously adv. 2; without ceremony; casually. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > incidentally or by the way incidently1529 occursively1592 emergently1660 en passant1665 incidentally1665 incidentarilya1670 casually1697 promiscuously1791 overly1825 promiscuous1826 the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adverb] > in unplanned manner suddenly1340 of unwarninga1400 on, upon, rarely of, in (a) suddenty1469 casuallya1549 extemporea1556 of (upon) this sudden1572 extemporally1577 at (the or a) volley1578 on (or o') the volley1578 extrumpery1582 unpremeditately1607 extemporary1610 extempory1623 extemporarily1667 impromptu1669 ad aperturam libri1679 unpremeditatedly1694 impulsively1768 extemporaneously1791 promiscuously1791 spontaneously1799 on (also upon) the spur of the moment (or occasion, etc.)1801 spontaneous1810 promiscuous1826 improvisedly1851 off-handedly1876 at the first jet1878 off the cuff1927 off the top of one's head1939 off the wall1966 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii.xii. 170 I do wish you'd come in some day quite promiscuous. 1875 A. C. Swinburne Let. 5 Nov. (1960) III. 82 It turned up promiscuous when at last wanted after ten years. 1901 ‘A. Forbes’ Odd Fish 92 You get a barrel o' the reds, and send it aboard just permiscuous like. 1970 M. Chisholm McAllister says No xiv. 113 She walked her horse toward him and said: ‘Did you have to kill him?’.. ‘You think I'd shoot a man promiscuous?’ he asked gruffly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1570
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