Crossword clues for muss
muss
- Make untidy, as hair
- Mess up, as hair
- Make messy or untidy, as hair
- Tousle affectionately
- No ___, no fuss
- Undo a do
- State of confusion or disorder
- Rumple up
- Put in disarray
- Make messy or untidy
- Fuss's rhyming partner
- Dishevel, as the hair
- Disarrange, as hair
- Disarrange, as a kid's hair
- "No __, no fuss"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muss \Muss\, n. A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.]
Muss \Muss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mussing.] To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple; -- often used with up; as, the wind mussed up my hair. [Colloq. U.S.]
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OE. mus a mouse. See Mouse.]
A term of endearment. [Obs.] See Mouse.
--B. Jonson.
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OF. mousche a fly, also, the play called
muss, fr. L. musca a fly.]
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be
taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make untidy," 1837, probably a variant of mess in its sense of "disorder." Earlier (1830) as a noun meaning "disturbance." Related: Mussed; mussing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A mess (gloss: disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder) 2 (context obsolete English) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. vb. (context transitive English) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete English) (non-gloss definition: A term of endearment.)
WordNet
v. make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair" [syn: tussle]
Wikipedia
MUSS may refer to:
- The ICAO airport code for the Sancti Spíritus Airport
- MUltifunctional Self protection System: a German sotfkill system
MUltifunctional Self protection System (MUSS, German: Multifunktionales Selbstschutz-System) is a softkill active protection system developed to protect military vehicles against guided anti-tank missiles.
Usage examples of "muss".
Small, sallow, mussed as the weekend approaches, Tommy Molto bleats the name when I tell the prosecution to call its next witness, as we settle in after lunch.
I thanked her absently, busily trying to arrange my mussed hair without having to replait the waist-length locks.
His hair was mussed and his shirt untucked in a way that might have suggested concern for his child, had it not been for the hands on his hips and the peeved look on his face.
Alle Werthbeurtheilung der Geschichte kann daher nur relativ und aus zeitlichen Momenten fliessen, und wer sich nicht selbst tauschen und den Dingen nicht Gewalt anthun will, muss ein fur allemal in dieser Wissenschaft auf absolute Werthe verzichten.
The device itself had been formed to fit the peculiar head-shape of a Haspur, and the hard leathery helmetlike structure that held it in place had been added in place of the straps that Deliambrens used so that no feathers would be broken or mussed when he wore it.
He jerked a dried stem out of his mussed black hair and smiled tightly.
Tirant could not answer her because the maidens were holding onto his hands so he could not muss her hair with his playing around.
Her mussed hair only made her look sexier, like a wanton angel come to tempt him.
He reached up and pulled a long piece of hair out of her carefully arranged updo, mussing it, and let it fall softly against her cheek.
Her carroty hair was in every direction and her clothes were thoroughly mussed about.
Her long hair, mussed from the writhing of her head during the caning, spilled unkempt locks over her slim shoulders.
But if I wanted to send her to the bottom with no fuss or muss, I'd blow out either the hull or the ballast tanks.
He still had on the mysterious dinner jacket, and his dark hair was mussed as though he'd been running his hands through it.
This is thi 1 in thi centir ov thi towr & it muss b eesily ½ a kilometir acres.
She gave him the cop once-over from head to toe, taking in the mussed hair, the gray skin, the bags sagging under bloodshot eyes.