From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.
Meanings
The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group.
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. 2019, Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, Speak: Love Your Story, Your Audience Is Waiting:
From earlier mingil, mengle, from Middle English menglen, equivalent to ming + -le. Cognate with Dutch mengelen (“to mingle, mix”), German mengen (“to mingle, mix”). More at ming.
Meanings
(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.
Be aware of the smiling enemy, that openly sheatheth his weapon, / But mingleth poison in secret with the sacred salt of hospitality. 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:
[T]here was hayle ãd fyre mẽgled with the hayle, […] 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:
Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2011:
(transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship.
To cause or allow to intermarry.
To intermarry.
[T]he holy ſeed haue mingled themſelues with the people of thoſe lands, […] 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 9:2, column 1:
[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen. 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:
(transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
a mingled, imperfect virtue a. 1729, John Rogers, The Necessity of Universal Obedience:
(transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
The physician […] proceeded to mingle another draught. 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Interview”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 86:
(obsolete, transitive) To put together; to join.
Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord
(The beſt Feather of our wing) haue mingled ſummes
To buy a Preſent for the Emperor: […] 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:
(intransitive) To become mixed or blended.
Many a tear would mingle in the cup of joy that they presented to the young couples and the wedding-guests. 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 438:
(intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
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. 2009, Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life:
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