muss

• IPA^(key): /mʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Related to mess (“disorder”).

muss (third-person singular simple present musses, present participle mussing, simple past and past participle mussed)

1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

muss (plural musses)

1. A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder)
2. (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.

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Compare Middle English mus (“a mouse”). See mouse.

muss (plural musses)

1. (obsolete) A term of endearment.

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• muss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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• muß (superseded)

• IPA^(key): /mʊs/

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• Rhymes: -ʊs

muss

1. First-person singular present of müssen.
2. Third-person singular present of müssen.

• IPA^(key): /mus/

muss

1. first-, second-, and third-person singular present indicative of mussen