Mixenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mixen (plural mixens)

1. A compost heap or dunghill.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 36:

     [I]f we have fish at all / Let them be gold; and charge the gardeners now / To pick the faded creature from the pool, / And cast it on the mixen that it die.

   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:

     Something of this occurred to him even in his wrath with me, for he spoke very softly to the filly, who now could scarce subdue herself; but she drew in her nostrils, and breathed to his breath and did all she could to answer him.
     'Not too hard, my dear,' he said: 'led him gently down on the mixen. That will be quite enough.' Then he turned the saddle off, and I was up in a moment.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

     "I reckon that's the size o't," said Coggan, working along without looking up.
     "Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.

   • 1907, Benjamin Thorpe(translator), Sæmundr Sigfússon (original), The Elder Edda of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Edda of Snorre Sturleson, The Lay of Volund:

     =To the chest they came, for the keys asked; manifest was their grudge, when therein they looked. Of those children he the heads cut off, and under the prison's mixen laid their bodies.

   • 1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (Brooks)/Chapter XVI, Chapter XVI:

     Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.

派生語

参照

• “mixen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• enmix

語源

From meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmik.sen/

名詞

mixen f

1. a mixen; a dungheap; a dunghill

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: myxen, mixne, myxon, mixerne, mexen
  • English: mixen
  • Yola: mizen

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “mixen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.