Mixed, adj. (colloquial).—1. Confused; muddled; bewildered.
1880. Punch, 4 Sept., 106. 'Tomkins's First Session.' Rather mixed after twenty-one hours' continuous sitting.
2. (old: now American).—Foul; bad; inferior.
c. 1280. Havelok the Dane, l. 2533, p. 88 (Roxb. A). Of Cornwayle that was erl, That fole traytour, that mixed cherl.
3. (common).—Slightly drunk. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.
1872. Leeds Mercury, 29 Aug. 'Nottingham Police Report.' 'Was defendant drunk?' 'No, Sir, he was not drunk, and he wornt sober.' 'You say he wasn't drunk?' 'No, Sir, he was mixed.'
Mix-metal, subs. (old).—A silver-*smith.
1785. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Mixum, subs. (old).—An apothecary.
1635. Glapthorne, Hollander, i. 1. Sir, I am sent from Mr. Mixum, your apothecary.
Mizmaze, subs. (old).—See quot.
1755.
1706. Locke, Conduct of the Understanding, § 20. Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books, and the clue to lead them through the mizmaze of variety of opinions and authors to truth.
1755. Johnson, Eng. Dict., s.v. Mizmaze. A cant word, formed from maze by reduplication. A maze; a labyrinth.
1875. Parish, Sussex Glossary [Davies]. I was all of a mizmaze—I was all in a bewilderment.
1883. American, viii. 308. Unless he had repeated that verbal miz-maze of the Convention.
Mizzard, subs. (tramps').—The
mouth: cf. Mazzard.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv If the beds ain't all made . . . and everything fat and lean in the kitchen, they open their mizzards and slam I can tell you.
Mizzle, verb. (common).—To decamp;
to amputate (q.v.); to
skedaddle (q.v.).
1781. G. Parker, View of Society, II. 231. He preferred mizzling off to France.
1789. Geo. Parker, Life's Painter, p. 143, s.v.
1821. Egan, Real Life, i. 224. He tipp'd the slavey a tanner and mizzled.
1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue (3rd ed.), s.v.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry p. 6. Tom. That will do—now then Dicky, mizzle!—be scarce!—broom! Prince. Wouldn't intrude a moment, gentlemen, good morning—order my carriage.
1830. T. Hood, On a Royal Demise. How monarchs die is easily explained, And thus it might upon their tombs be chiselled: As long as George IV. could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled.
1830. Dickens, Pickwick, p. 74 (ed. 1847). 'How you run on,' said Rachael. 'Run on—nothing to the hours, days, weeks, months, years, when we're united—run on—they'll fly on—bolt,—mizzle—steam—engine—thousand-horse-*power—nothing to it.'
1840. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends (Lay of S. Cuthbert). 'Cut your stick, sir—come, mizzle! be off with you! go!'
1841. Hood, in Comic Almanack, 256. But, oh! pride, pride must have a fall; Her cash he soon got through: And then, one mizzling Mich'lmas day, The Count he mizzled too.
1843. S. Coyne, Binks the Bagman, i. Binks. Sanguinary scoundrel! you have murdered that angelic woman. Begone—abscond—dissolve—mizzle!
1844. Charles Selby, London by Night, i. 1. Jack. Hawkhurst! (Aside.) I'd better mizzle.
