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单词 mix-up
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mix-upn.

Brit. /ˈmɪksʌp/, U.S. /ˈmɪksˌəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to mix up at mix v. Phrasal verbs.
Etymology: < to mix up at mix v. Phrasal verbs.
colloquial.
1. A fight; an encounter with someone. Now rare.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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