mingle

From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming +‎ -le. Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

mingle (third-person singular simple present mingles, present participle mingling, simple past and past participle mingled)

1. (transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product.^[1]

   Synonyms: confuse, confound

   • 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Exodus ix:[24], folio XV, verso:

     [T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […]

   • 1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Searching for Pride”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality.

   • 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-09-26:

     Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services.

2. (transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
3. To cause or allow to intermarry.
4. To intermarry.
   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1 Esdras] viij:[87], folio vij, verso, column 2:

     [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues w^t the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.

     [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, and mingled ourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 9:2, column 1:

     [T]he holy ſeed haue mingled themſelues with the people of thoſe lands, […]

5. (transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.^[1]
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience:

     a mingled, imperfect virtue

6. (transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.^[1]
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Interview”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 86:

     The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.^[1]
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 375, column 2:

     Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord
     (The beſt Feather of our wing) haue mingled ſummes
     To buy a Preſent for the Emperor: […]

8. (intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
9. (intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
   • 2009, Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life:

     And allow a bit of a cocktail hour before the meal so that when your guests arrive, you have time to mingle before you step into the kitchen.

• bemingle
• commingle
• mingle-mangle
• mingler
• overmingle
• single and ready to mingle
• undermingle
• unmingle

mingle (plural mingles)

1. (obsolete) A mixture.
2. The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group
   • 2019, Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, Speak: Love Your Story, Your Audience Is Waiting:

     When speakers engage their audiences before they speak with a quick mingle and keep the engagement going throughout the speech, the access point for fear is cut off because there is no silence.

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• mongrel

• Leming, leming