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单词 miscegen
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miscegenn.

Brit. /ˈmɪsᵻdʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈmɪsədʒ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin miscēre, genus.
Etymology: Irregularly < classical Latin miscēre to mix (see mixed adj.2) + genus race (see genus n., and compare -gen comb. form): see miscegenation n. and discussion at that entry.
Now rare.
= miscegenate n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person
mongrel1542
of (the) half blood1697
half-caste1758
half-breed1760
lip-lap1798
quarter-breed1821
half-blood1826
half-and-half1827
quarter-blood1827
quarter-caste1859
mixed blooda1862
brown1862
miscegen1864
yellowbelly1867
breed1870
redbone1890
miscegenate1898
high yellow1910
samba1958
lightie1991
1864 D. G. Croly et al. Miscegenation vii. 34 The purest miscegen will be brown, with reddish cheeks.
1864 N.Y. Herald 26 Mar. 4/4 For all we know..the mothers of the miscegens may have been married to the fathers of the miscegens.
1865 S. S. Cox Eight Years in Congr. 354 A very sprightly suffragan of the miscegen stamp.
1949 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 34 299 A jokester observed that it was an error to look on a miscegen as a ‘new light’—he was ‘Half light at best’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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