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Minish vs Mixish - What's the difference?

minish | mixish |

As a verb minish

is (archaic) to lessen or cause to seem to be less.

As an adjective mixish is

like or charactetistic of a mix; mixlike.

minish

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To lessen or cause to seem to be less.

    • Synonyms

    * (lessen) (l), (l), (l), (l)

    mixish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like or charactetistic of a mix; mixlike.
  • *1890 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas :
    • There the cats and the dogs are all able to talk, When you meet 'em together, out taking a walk. There the roses are green—and the leaves may be pink; And things are so “mixish ” it scares you to think.
  • *1981 , Ian Robertson, The Dutch linguistic legacy and the Guyana/Venezuela border question :
    • In the woris of one informant, these people are all, "a sort of reddish mixish people", a mixture, judged by their own accounts, of Amerindian, Dutch and African.