mixed-up

[ mikst-uhp ]

/ ˈmɪkstˈʌp /

completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.

Origin of mixed-up

First recorded in 1860–65

The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.

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Strangely, stories of mixed-up babies in Russia are not uncommon, horrifying young parents in the past.

Switched at Birth |Anna Nemtsova |October 25, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Portobelloby Ruth Rendell A suspenseful, complex mystery about mixed-up lives in a London neighborhood.

This Week's Hot Reads |The Daily Beast |September 8, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Their enthusiasm, devotion, and mixed-up sense of romance for squinty boys is one of the more quaint aspects of pop culture.

Trends That Need to End in 2010 |Natasha Vargas-Cooper |December 29, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

We can see how this might happen in Charlie's mixed-up universe, but how did Capri—an X-rated performer—end up there as well?

Don't Call Me a Prostitute |Tracy Quan |November 23, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The speech of the Basque country is first of all a langue, not a corrupted, mixed-up patois.

Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces |Francis Miltoun
He say he see I is mixed-up, but I never is knowed jest what he was driving at.

Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 |Various
It's a little like this Mexican war, a mixed-up problem and only one thing clear.

The Two Vanrevels |Booth Tarkington
At our first meeting you told me some mixed-up story and asked me to bring you some food.

The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor |Margaret Vandercook
That was a mixed-up family, of which there were so many in Russia.

Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

mixed-up

in a state of mental confusion; perplexed