Mixen

Quick meaning: Mixen is a noun meaning A compost heap or dunghill.

Meaning

A compost heap or dunghill.

Example Sentences

[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.

"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.

=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.

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.

Word Forms

• mixens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dunghill, mixhill, muckheap, muckmidden, muckhill, midden-hill.

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