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muss verb [ mʌs ]

• make (someone's hair or clothes) untidy or messy.
• "the wind was mussing up his hair"
Similar: ruffle, tousle, dishevel, rumple, mess up, make a mess of, disarrange, make untidy, tumble, put out of place, disorder,
Opposite: tidy,

muss noun

• a state of disorder.
• "no fuss, no muss—nothing left behind except a few little specks of dust"
Origin: mid 19th century (also as a noun in the sense ‘disturbance or row’): apparently a variant of mess.


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