Jack. - Horntip

MIXED, adj. (colloquial).-r. Con-
fused ; 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, 1. 2533,
p. 88 (Roxb. A). Of Cornwayle that was
erl, That fob e traytour, that MIXED cherl.
3. (common).-Slightly drunk.
For synonyms see DRINKS and
SCREWED.
1872. Leeds Mercury, 29 Aug.
'NottinghamPolice Report. "Was defendant
drunk ? " No, Sir, he was not
drunk, and he wornt sober." You say
he wasn't drunk ? " No, Sir, be was
MIXED.'
MIX-METAL, subs. (old).-A
smith.
1785. GROSE, Vulgar Tongue,s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. MATSELL, VOCab14/1-1/71, S.V.
Mixum, subs. (old).-An apothecary.
1635. GLAPTHORNE, Hollander, i.
x. Sir, I am sent from Mr. IVIIxum,
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. JoxiNsoN, Eng. Diet., s.v.
MizmAzE. A cant word, formed from
maze by reduplication. A maze ; a
labyrinth.
1875. PARISH, Sussex Glossary
[D Av 1Es] . I was all of a AtamAzE-I
was all in a bewilderment.
1883. American, viii. 308. Unless
he had repeated that verbal MIZ-MAZE
of the Convention.
325 111izzlc.
MIZZARD, subs. (tramps').-The
mouth : cf. MAZZARD.
1893. EMERSON, Signor Lio, 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, Diet. Turf, s.v.
1823. MONCRIEFF, Tom and 7erry
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 'NUZZLED.
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-engin e-thousand-horsepower-nothing
to it.'
1840. BARHAM, Ingoldsby Legends
(Lay of S. Cuthbert). Cut your stick,
sir-come, PUZZLE! be off with you! go ! '
1841. HOOD, in Comic Alnianack,
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 ;NUZZLED too.
1843. S. COYNE, Binks the Bagman,
i. Rinks. Sanguinary scoundrel ! you
have murdered that angelic woman.
Begone-abscond-dissolve-MIZZLE!
1844. CHARLES SELBY, London by
Night, i. 1. Yack. Hawkhurst ! (Aside.)
I'd better MIZZLE.