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mixling

noun

Etymology

From mix + -ling. Compare German Mischling (“hybrid, mongrel, half-breed”), French mélange (“mixture”), German Low German Mischling (“half-breed, hybrid, mongrel”).

  1. inherited from *miskijan✻ — “to mix”
  2. inherited from *miskijan✻
  3. inherited from *mixian✻
  4. inherited from mixen
  5. suffixed as mixling — “mix + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who is of mixed ethnic or racial background

    One who is of mixed ethnic or racial background; a hybrid; a cross-breed.

    • Wagner unflinchingly believed that not the least objective of the Nuremberg clauses was "to make the mixed race, which is politically and biologically unwanted, disappear as soon as possible, for a mixling can never be a patriot."
    • Yet there have been incidences where it was thought that a mixling's duplicate had been so strong that, although duplication took place during equinox, it had remained the dominant figure during the whole of the mixling's life.
    • While there are some who think it odd that a mixling Melph soldier should be able to read, let them rest assured that there are more who can than are known.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mixling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA