Mixen

Get ye half-a-dozen helpers, and go in a body to Mixen

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

Rural mechanics too idle to mechanize, rural servants too rebellious to serve, drifted or were forced into Mixen

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

A pedestrian would be seen abstractedly passing along Mixen

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

Henchard had frequently met this man about the streets, observed that his clothing spoke of neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

-- Mixen signifies dunghill. he may gang farther and fare waur -- but that's a 'ane to the sang,

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Mixen coming in and yelling for Garris to let him go.

courierpress.com Stories 2010

Mixen signifies dunghill. he may gang farther and fare waur — but that’s

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

It seems to come from somewhere about Mixen Lane.’

A Changed Man 2006

[Footnote 5: _Mixen_ is an old word for _dunghill_] "See here, my child, how fresh the colors look,

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester