mixed
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mixed/mɪkst/
▶adjective consisting of different qualities or elements.
■ containing a mixture of both favourable and negative elements: a mixed reaction.
■ of or for members of both sexes.
– origin ME mixt: from OFr. mixte, from L. mixtus, past part. of miscere ‘to mix’.
'mixed' also found in these Oxford entries:
alcopop
- alloy
- ambivalent
- Anglo-Indian
- Anglo-Irish
- awe
- bake
- barathea
- base
- Bellini
- blue roan
- bread
- breeze
- Buck's Fizz
- caboclo
- chametz
- chance-medley
- china stone
- chop suey
- chow chow
- coca
- cocktail
- cocoa
- coleslaw
- coloured
- crab stick
- Creole
- crudités
- cup
- daub
- dryer
- duchesse potatoes
- dynamite
- eggnog
- electuary
- encaustic
- Eurasian
- farrago
- fear
- fines herbes
- flux
- fool
- French mustard
- frigate
- fritto misto
- garden cress
- genlock
- grog
- guacamole
- gum resin
