subs. (colloquial).—A muddle; a mess.
1882. W. D. HOWELLS, A Likely Story, iii. What a fatal, fatal MIX.
Verb. (colloquial).—1. To confuse; and (2) to involve or implicate. Also TO MIX UP (see quot. 1823).
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. MIX IT UP—to agree secretly how the parties shall make up a tale, or colour a transaction in order to cheat or deceive another party, as in case of a justice-hearing, of a law-suit, or a cross in a boxing-match for money.
1879. E. DICEY, Victor Emanuel, p. 53. An Italian exile, who in his hot youth had been MIXED UP, very much against the grain, in an abortive plot for the assassination of the late king.
TO MIX (or JOIN) GIBLETS. See quots.
1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. GIBLETS.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. MIX GIBLETS—to intermarry—naturally or legally.
1887. Notes and Queries, 7 S. IV. 511. TO JOIN GIBLETS. This expression may occasionally be heard … and has a very offensive meaning.
