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Masses vs Musses - What's the difference?

masses | musses |

As verbs the difference between masses and musses

is that masses is third-person singular of mass while musses is third-person singular of muss.

As a noun masses

is plural of lang=en.

masses

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only, generically) People, especially a large number of people
  • * '>citation
    • Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
  • (plural only) The total population.
    • The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
  • * 1975 , (Monty Python), '(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)'':
    • Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses , not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
  • (plural only) The lower classes or all but the elite.

    • Synonyms

    * (lower classes) unwashed

    Derived terms

    * unwashed masses

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mass)

    • See also

    * unwashed masses ----

    musses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (muss)
    • ----

    muss

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (es)
  • to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy

    • Noun

    (es)
  • a disorderly mess
  • (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) . See mouse.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete)
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

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