单词 | mix-up |
释义 | mix-upn. colloquial. 1. A fight; an encounter with someone. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight bicker1297 fightc1300 tirpeilc1330 ragea1393 stradec1400 intermell1489 cockfighta1513 skirm1534 bustle1579 pell-mellc1586 brabble1587 jostle1607 scufflea1616 counterbuff1632 mêléea1648 roil1690 tussle1749 scrimmage1780 turn-up1810 scrape1812 pounding match1815 mellay1819 struggle1840 mix-up1841 scrap1846 rough-up1891 turn-to1893 push and shove1895 bagarre1897 stoush1908 dogfight1910 bundle1936 sort-out1937 yike1940 bassa-bassa1956 punch-up1958 thump-up1967 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a state of confused disorder feery-fary1535 puddle1587 bauchle1600 vertigo1702 whemmel1817 mull1821 mix-up1841 scrimmage1852 embroilment1856 hash-up1860 brangle1865 mucker1867 unplight1876 car wreck1877 mix1882 mess-up1902 stirabout1905 pot mess1914 boorach1928 balls-up1929 muck-up1930 balls1938 box1941 Chinese fire drill1943 snafu1943 foul-up1944 screw-up1950 snarl-up1960 tiswas1960 bumble-bath1965 clusterfuck1969 headfuck1983 car crash1992 katogo1994 dumpster fire2008 1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical I. xv. 94 I had expected being conducted to London alone, and certainly was not prepared for a mix-up with these men. 1894 G. Ade Chicago Stories (1941) 116 ‘Tubby’ Bite, sewer inspector and a handy man in a ‘mix-up’. 1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 7/3 Glove Contest in America. Midway the round was a rattling mix up. 1913 Chums 25 Jan. 361/2 Then for a full minute the two engaged in a ‘mix-up’. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves viii. 85 There was a bit of a mix-up, and Claude and Eustace are more or less languishing in Vine Street police-station. c1926 C. E. Scoggins Red Gods Call 59 I was with him in one mix-up in Honduras and he sure is one Foxy Grandpa in a scrap. 2. A state of confusion, a muddle; a misunderstanding or mistake resulting in confusion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] brabbling1530 confusion1530 ruffle1533 pell-mellc1586 confusedness1587 huddle1606 Babel confusion1653 promiscuity1663 hugger-mugger1674 promiscuousness1676 clutter1692 jumblement1706 muddle1808 embranglement1826 mare's nest1837 muddlement1857 muddledom1891 muddliness1891 mêlée1895 mix-up1898 huddledom1923 buggeration1962 mixed-upness1967 1898 Daily News 12 Aug. 6/3 One or two boats had run into the raft, and there was a considerable mix up there. 1902 Daily Chron. 14 Oct. 3/2 The general mix-up of things in these..latter days. 1932 J. C. Powys Glastonbury Romance xxiii. 737 God! What a mix-up it all is. 1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office (1972) 139 As soon as the mix-up was brought to light I was freed. 1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) i. ii. 67 It was a dreadful mixup, then he saw that I was still alive. He did not want to bury a live body. 1999 BBC Top Gear Mag. Aug. 135/1 I noticed no money had gone out of my account,..they said not to worry, as there had been a mix-up with bank paperwork. 3. A combination or blend; a mixture. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1918 I. Gurney Let. 22 July (1991) 430 I hope for a real old mixup, of Miss Scott, Harvey, Howells..and some of your poet-friends. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 159 Parsley piert..appears to be a corruption of the percepier which De l'Obel had applied to Aphanes arvensis, a mix-up of perce and the parsley of Parsley-breakstone. 1973 M. McLuhan Let. 10 May (1987) 475 The Watergate affair is a nice mix-up of these patterns. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 270 Part of this generational mix-up, or blending, has occurred because Mommies and Daddies dress like teens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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