"muss" meaning in English

See muss in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mʌs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-muss.wav Forms: musses [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌs Etymology: Related to mess (“disorder”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} muss (plural musses)
  1. A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder).
    Sense id: en-muss-en-noun--EwzN3cL
  2. (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-muss-en-noun-PP4-9R-w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 90 1 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 76 3 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 8 82 3 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 89 2 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 11 79 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 9 82 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 66 16 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 78 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 13 72 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 10 82 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /mʌs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-muss.wav Forms: musses [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌs Etymology: Compare Middle English mus (“a mouse”). See mouse. Etymology templates: {{cog|enm|mus||a mouse}} Middle English mus (“a mouse”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} muss (plural musses)
  1. (obsolete) A term of endearment. Tags: obsolete Translations (term of endearment): mussukka (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-muss-en-noun-cIMEVBWY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /mʌs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-muss.wav Forms: musses [present, singular, third-person], mussing [participle, present], mussed [participle, past], mussed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌs Etymology: Related to mess (“disorder”). Head templates: {{en-verb}} 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. Tags: transitive Derived forms: muss up Translations (rumple): разхвърлям (razhvǎrljam) (Bulgarian), taŭzi (Esperanto), sotkea (Finnish), durcheinander bringen (German), czochrać [imperfective] (Polish), пу́тать (pútatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-muss-en-verb-i0bZx5bs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.