mixling

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noun

One who is of mixed ethnic or racial background; a hybrid; a cross-breed.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmixling (plural mixlings)

plural mixlings

  1. One who is of mixed ethnic or racial background; a hybrid; a cross-breed.

    While there are some who think it odd that a mixling Melph soldier should be able to read, let them rest assured that there are more who can than are known.

    2012, Janis Susan May, Inheritance of Shadows
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    Wagner unflinchingly believed that not the least objective of the Nuremberg clauses was "to make the mixed race, which is politically and biologically unwanted, disappear as soon as possible, for a mixling can never be a patriot."

    2000, Michael H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler

    Yet there have been incidences where it was thought that a mixling's duplicate had been so strong that, although duplication took place during equinox, it had remained the dominant figure during the whole of the mixling's life.

    2010, Marlies Bugmann, Wafters, Frazzlers & Black Unicorns

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

From mix + -ling. Compare German Mischling (“hybrid, mongrel, half-breed”), French mélange (“mixture”), German Low German Mischling (“half-breed, hybrid, mongrel”).

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APA

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Chicago

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