10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIXTER-MAXTER»
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
OE. myxm, dunghill (Luke xiv. 35); Mixcn, meoxen, der. of meax, mix, myx, dung (
B.T.).] MIXHILL, MIXLE, see Maxhill, Mizzle, v.' MIXTY-MAXTY, sb. and adj. Sc. n.
Cy. Nhb. Also in forms mlxie'maxie Sc.; mixter-maxter Sc. Nhb.'; mixty-maxie Sc.;
...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Abd. A mixter-maxter 0' figures wi' the letters 0' the A B C. ALEXANDER johnny
Gibb (1871) ix; Ye're a kin' o' Scotch tongue in yer heid fin ye lat it wag free—ithe"
times it's kin' o' mixty-maxty, Abtt'. "'Hy. Fra- Pnss (junc 25, 1898;. Frf. \Ve had a ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete ...
35) ; Mixen, meoxen, der. of meox, mix, myx, dung (B.T.).J MIXHILL, MIXLE, see
Maxhill, Mizzle, v.1 MIXTY-MAXTY, sb. and adj. Sc. n.Cy. Nhb. Also in forms mixie
-maxie Sc. ; mixter-maxter Sc. Nhb.1 ; mixty-maxie Sc. ; mixy-maxy Wgt. N.Cy.1 ...
MIXTER-MAXTER, n. A jumble. Reduplicated form of mixter, mixture. Scots.
MUCKLE, adj. Big. Scots. MUG, n. Fool, i.e. something into which one can pour
anything. Br slang. MURGEON, v. Grimace. Scots. MUTCHKIN, n. Measure of
liquids or ...
... Strong though it was, nane i' the toon Grew better for't or fatter, And some could
scarcely gulp it doon—The mixter-maxter water. Yet even that pnir mixed supply
Grew shorter aye and shorter, Till aince was raised the hue-and-cry For Bass or ...
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Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity
Some use Scots. Some like Greig or Anthony Neilson do not. Some write mixter-
maxter in Scots, English and in Gaelic. But their interest in language, Scots,
English or Gaelic, recognises the variegated culture where those playwrights
work.
MISTRESS, a pit lantern used by drivers in the main airways. It is simply an
oblong box wanting the front side, which is left unglazed and open. It is also
called a midgy. MIT, a mitten. MIXTY-MAXTY, MIXTER-MAXTER, a confused
mixture.
MISTRESS, a pit lantern used by drivers in the main airways. It is simply an
oblong box wanting the front side, which is left unglazed and open. It is also
called a midgy. MIT, a mitten. MIXTY-MAXTY, MIXTER-MAXTER, a confused
mixture.
Richard Oliver Heslop, 1894
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'Heaven-taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish ...
Naething mixter- maxter here; some douce sea- maws tak these white-washed
wa's for a new Bass Rock; a kiltie tour-guide on an open top bus intones 'Mary,
Queen of Scots . . .' to a wheen toorie-hattit tourists, huddlt and snell. The wan
sun ...
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Bog-myrtle and peat: tales chiefly of Galloway gathered from ...
Thae auld times are apt to get a kennin' mixter-maxter in yin's heid." We got little
more out of him till once the bairns were shooed off to their beds, and the wife
had been in three times at them with the broad of her loof to make them behave ...
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 1895
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Books: Edinburgh Old Town; Journeys and Evocations by John Fee …
Taken all in all, this is a delightful mixter-maxter of the unfamiliar and better remembered, both of the good and rather less so characters and ... «EdinburghGuide.com, Nov 14»
Trisha Baga: Holiday, DCA, Dundee
The mixter-maxter soundtrack includes Gloria Estefan's Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, music from the film American Beauty, and occasional low, ... «Herald Scotland, Dec 12»
