MUSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muss mean? 

• MUSS (noun)
  The noun MUSS has 1 sense:

1. a state of confusion and disorderliness

  Familiarity information: MUSS used as a noun is very rare.

• MUSS (verb)
  The verb MUSS has 1 sense:

1. make messy or untidy

  Familiarity information: MUSS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of confusion and disorderliness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mess; messiness; muss; mussiness

Context example:

she smoothed the mussiness of the bed

Hypernyms ("muss" is a kind of...):

disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)

Derivation:

muss (make messy or untidy)

mussy (dirty and disorderly)

• MUSS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they muss    ... he / she / it musses   
Past simple: mussed   
Past participle: mussed   
-ing form: mussing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make messy or untidy

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

muss; tussle

Context example:

the child mussed up my hair

Hypernyms (to "muss" is one way to...):

disarrange (destroy the arrangement or order of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

muss (a state of confusion and disorderliness)