muss
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
/mʌs/
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/mʌs/ · /mʊs/
Definition of muss
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.
“The old man affectionately mussed his grandson's hair.”
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verb
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(transitive)To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.
“The old man affectionately mussed his grandson's hair.”
noun
- A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder).
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(obsolete)A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
“Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, and cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am Antony yet.”
“Gods so! a muss, a muss, a muss, a muss.”
- (obsolete)A term of endearment.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Related to mess (“disorder”).
Words you can make from muss
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