Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disordered; rumpled; tousled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Colloq. U.S. Disarranged; rumpled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having been
mussed ,messy ,rumpled .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dirty and disorderly
Etymologies
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Examples
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If snowballing the target is too "mussy," a large holly wreath with a cluster of sleighbells in the center may be suspended from the ceiling with red and green streamers.
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His necktie was tied kind of mussy and careless, like Old Man
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It was a wood fire, in an open chimney, for Mrs. Armadale would sit by no other; and I call the place the kitchen, for really a large portion of the work of the kitchen was done there; however, there was a stove in an adjoining room, which accommodated most of the boilers and kettles in use, while the room itself was used for all the "mussy" work.
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For real, a mussy-headed teenage boy whispered, jostling his mother in the next row.
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For real, a mussy-headed teenage boy whispered, jostling his mother in the next row.
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No bunch of teenyboppers was going to keep me from enjoying the latest adventures of my favorite barefooted, mussy-haired, possibly autistic detective, no sir.
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For real, a mussy-headed teenage boy whispered, jostling his mother in the next row.
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His mother and all his mussy-headed friends agreed -- Hamlet (they never referred to the actor, Dan Donohue's real name) was the best actor, like, ever.
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His mother and all his mussy-headed friends agreed -- Hamlet (they never referred to the actor, Dan Donohue's real name) was the best actor, like, ever.
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For real, a mussy-headed teenage boy whispered, jostling his mother in the next row.
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