Minglest vs Mingiest - What's the difference?
minglest | mingiest |
(archaic) (mingle)
To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 24
To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
* Bible, Ezra ix. 2
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
* Henry Rogers
(obsolete) To put together; to join.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
To become mixed or blended.
(mingy)
(colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.
*1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 298:
*:After the Liberation Mrs Crewe kept on being as mingy as before with the food; and wouldn't let Harold buy any new clothes.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 413:
*:Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough.
As a verb minglest
is (archaic) (mingle).As an adjective mingiest is
(mingy).minglest
English
Verb
(head)mingle
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(mingl)- There was fire mingled with the hail.
- Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. —
New York Times
- The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
- a mingled , imperfect virtue
- (Shakespeare)
- [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.