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And this time the mix is known as Spanglish or Tex-Mex.

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  1. transitive verb To combine or blend into one mass or mixture.
  2. transitive verb To create or form by combining ingredients: mix a drink; mix cement.
  3. transitive verb To add (an ingredient or element) to another: mix an egg into batter.
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  • And this time the mix is known as Spanglish or Tex-Mex. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
  • To this mix was added a number of the curious, people who could bully or bribe their way into the event, especially celebrities or would-be celebrities who had been snubbed in the matter of an invitation to the party itself. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • There's nothing radically new here, yet the mix is alluring. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • And of course, still in the mix is they could cremate this body and bring it to Neverland, Nancy. —  CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2009
  • Make sure your mix is appropriate for your age. —  CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2007
 

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mixture ·  combination ·  butter ·  amount ·  blend ·  cake ·  product ·  fruit ·  composition ·  sauce ·  cup ·  smell
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  1. Back-formation from Middle English mixt, mixed, mixed, from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mixen, transposed from misken (as ax for ask), from Anglo-Saxon miscian = Middle Low German mischen = Old High German miskan, misken, Middle High German G. mischen = Welsh mysgu = Gaelic measg = Old Bulgarian mieshati = Servian mijeshati = Bohemian misheti = Polish mieszac = Russian mieshatĭ, mix; also, Old Bulgarian mieshiti = Servian mijesiti = Bohemian misiti = Polish miesic = Russian miesiti, knead, in Old Bulgarian and Bohemian also mix; = Latin miscere (past participle mistus, mixtus) = Greek μίσγειν, mix; cf. Sanskrit miçro, mixed; with orig. formative -sk, from Teutonic √ mik, Indo-European √ mig, as in Greek μιγνύναι, μιγη̆ναι, mix. The Teutonic forms are prob. native, as the apparently deriv. mash indicates; but. they have prob. been influenced by the L., to which also the Celtic forms may be referred, and to which most of the English words associated with mix are due, namely mixtion, mistion, mixture, etc., admix, commix, etc. From the L. miscere are also derived maslin, maslin, mastiff, messin.
  2. from mix, v.
  3. Also dial. mux; from Middle English mix, mex, from Anglo-Saxon meox (dative meoxe, mixe, myxe) = Friesic miux, miuhs, muck, dung; akin to muck and to forms cited under mist. Hence mixen.
  4. from mix, n. Cf. muck, v.
 

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