Little Mixer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Little Mix +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

Little Mixer (plural Little Mixers)

  1. A member of the British girl group Little Mix.
    • 2011 December 22, Ashley Percival, “Tulisa Has A Few Too Many At Pal's Birthday Celebrations”, in HuffPost[1], archived from the original on 20 December 2022:
      A Few Vodkas And A Little Mixer
    • 2013 May 7, Emily Hall Summer, “Pack out the beaches in a 22C heatwave BIT HIT AND MIST”, in Daily Star[2]:
      Little Mixers Jesy and Perrie giving out ice cream.
    • 2013 November 11, “Edwards and Malik adopt kitten”, in Kuwait Times, page 37:
      The ‘Move’ singer has already invited her fellow Little Mixers Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall to be her bridesmaids, even though she and the One Direction hunk have yet to set a date for the wedding.
    • 2018 November 16, Eoin Murphy, “Little Mix to hit high note (minus Simon)”, in Irish Daily Mail[3]:
      You would imagine that such a split would crush a group, but for these Little Mixers, it is onwards and upwards.
    • 2019 October 29, “Little Mix £50m”, in Heat[4]:
      The Little Mixers are worth around £12.5m each thanks to sales from five albums, arena-slaying tours, merch sales and, of course, endorsements galore (everything from Union Flag M&Ms to Micellar face wipes and USA Pro sports bras).
    • 2021 September, “Celebrities everyone’s talking about…: Little Mix Multiply”, in Surrey Rocks, number 1, page 16:
      Interestingly both Little Mixers have decided not to reveal the sex and names of their new offspring yet.
    • 2022, Glenn Fosbraey, An Exploration of Hatred in Pop Music: Viva Hate, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
      Little Mix ‘Sweet Melody’: As all 4 of the Little Mixers cavort on the ground in various states of undress, in a video directed by a man, Jade Thirlwall utters the line ‘there was this boy that I knew, made me feel like a woman’ grabbing her breasts as she sings the word ‘woman’ as if to suggest her breasts are what makes her a woman.
  2. A fan of the British girl group Little Mix.
    Synonym: Mixer
    • 2013 July/August, “Exclusive interview with… Little Mix”, in iN Mag Essex, number 101, page 45:
      Have you had any problems with obsessive Little Mixers?
    • 2017 February, “Local theatre: Little Mixers, Jungle Book and Johnny Cash”, in The Felixstowe Magazine, page 13:
      Also this month mums and dads bring your Little Mixers to enjoy Black Magic - The Little Mix Tribute Show on Wednesday 15th at 7.30pm which features hits from Little Mix’s first album and X-Factor including ‘Wings’, ‘How Ya Doin’ and ‘Cannonball’, right up to their current 2016 smash hits ‘Black Magic’ & ‘Love Me Like You’.
    • 2018 August 14, “Little Mix in Mykonos”, in Heat[5]:
      But Little Mixers may have been disappointed to find a lack of Jesy Nelson on their Instagram feeds, as the 27 year old has kept her trip distinctly private – she didn’t even post about going to her sister’s wedding, which also took place on the island last week.
    • 2020 July 16, “Stan Little Mixers”, in Daily Tribune[6]:
      While concerts and tours have been put off for the first half of the year and most probably even the whole year, music fans have had to make do with livestream and online music drops. Little Mixers are no different, and they’ve been trending “Philippines Stan Little Mix” for two days since Tuesday, 14 July, as a tribute to the four-piece British girl group.
    • 2021 January, “Re-Mix”, in Society Marbella, Icon Publishing, page 21:
      Last month we shared with you how Little’s[sic] Mix’s Jesy was taking an extended break from the band. Since then, Little Mixers everywhere have been heartbroken by her announcement that she is officially saying goodbye.
    • 2021 May/June, Families Manchester, page 13:
      Calling all Little Mixers.... Glory Days is the ultimate tribute to Little Mix.
    • 2022 July 20, Anya Meyerowitz, “Leigh-Anne Pinnock has officially teased a new solo career and we are not OK”, in Glamour[7], archived from the original on 20 July 2022:
      Her first tweet referenced checking whether a microphone was on and immediately caught the attention of Little Mixers on the social media platform: “Is this thing on?,” she wrote.