muss

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"And to think," said Barney, "that yesterday this muss was the largest corn mill west of anywhere.

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  1. transitive verb To make messy or untidy; rumple.
  2. noun A state of disorder; a mess.

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  • The Patapum Baby Carrier is a no-muss, no-fuss baby carrier that ... —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • And celebs at the Creative Coalition Inaugural Ball also were delighted to discover a pair of Ear Mitts® in their VIP Gift Bag so their hair would be no muss, no fuss. —  PRWeb - Daily News Feed
  • And celebs at the Creative Coalition Inaugural Ball also were delighted to discover a pair of Ear Mitts® in their VIP Gift Bag so their hair would be no muss, no fuss that evening. —  PRWeb - Daily News Feed
  • From a sensibly chic leather back-pack and vigorously reconstructed satchel to a no muss, no-fuss beach tote, our top offerings should provide adequate room and ... —  Cool Hunting
  • There was no tangle of cables, and no muss or fuss to the setup: —  Low End Mac
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  1. Probably alteration of mess.

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  1. from Old French mousche, the play called muss, literally a fly, French mouche, a fly, from Latin musca, a fly: see Musca. The word muss, properly *mush, of this origin, seems to have been confused with another muss, a variant of mess, itself a variant of mesh, and ult. of mash, a mixture, of which mush is a third variant. The words are mainly dial. or colloq., and, in the absence of early quotations, cannot be definitely separated.
  2. from muss, n.
  3. A variant of mouse (Middle English mus), or, more prob., directly from Latin mus, a mouse, used as a term of endearment: see mouse.
 

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