mussiness

Woke up berating myself about last night ... being pushy/inquisition-like with Yawn's new thing ... i get that way, sort of spitefully aggressive, when someone is so polished and sweet and polite that i want to squish them like a toothpaste tube to get some mussiness.

wench77 Diary Entry wench77 2003

The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Ices are now served at garden-parties in small paper cups placed on ice-plates -- a fashion which is very neat, and which saves much of the _mussiness_ which has heretofore been a feature of these entertainments.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Particular care must be taken in serving the refreshments to avoid any accidents or mussiness.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 Lillian Eichler Watson

Without accuracy any attempt at brilliancy must result in "mussiness."

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

While they were being swallowed -- slowly, by reason of their mussiness -- she had certain things she wished to say to him.

The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

To me it was getting up before dawn, and washing in ice-cold water, no time to comb the hair, always carrying a feeling of personal mussiness, with an adjustment to dirt.

Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900

The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Again and again he nearly lost his balance, in his violent attempts to dress his beautiful plumage, and remove the last remnant of nest mussiness.

A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874