/ˈmɪʃlɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃlɪŋə/, 1900s– Mischlings. Also with lower-case initial.Mischlingn.
/ˈmɪʃlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃlɪŋ//ˈmɪʃlɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃlɪŋə/, 1900s– Mischlings. Also with lower-case initial. A person of mixed race, esp. one of partly Jewish descent.
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1936 Biometrika 28 33 Mischlinge, or persons of 25% or 50% Jewish blood, may marry with consent of the authorities an ‘Aryan’ or a 25% Mischling.
1954 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 23 180 In the Mannheim Elementary schools there are now 79 Mischlings (i.e. children whose fathers are Negroes and whose mothers are white Germans).
1968 D. Hopkinson Incense Tree i. 9 Had not Eva married..a gentile? And here I was the fruit of a forbidden union—a mischling.
1986 D. Hart-Davis Hitler's Games xvii. 236 Fürstner had been a Mischling.
1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride xlvi. 357 She was Catholic... But two of her four grandparents were Jewish, so she was classified as a mischling, first degree.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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