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Messed vs Mossed - What's the difference?

messed | mossed |

As verbs the difference between messed and mossed

is that messed is (mess) while mossed is (moss).

messed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mess)

    • mess

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) Mass; church service.
  • A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
    • A mess of pottage.
  • * Milton
    • At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .
  • A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
    • the wardroom mess
  • * 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:
    • But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,
  • A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
    • (Latimer)
  • (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
    • Derived terms
    * Eton mess * lose the number of one's mess * mess hall * mess up * Mills Mess
    External links
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    Verb

  • (label) To take meals with a mess.
  • (label) To belong to a mess.
  • (label) To eat (with others).
  • (label) To supply with a mess.

    • External links

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    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a corruption of (etyl) , compare (muss), or derived from Etymology 1 "mixed foods, as for animals".

    Noun

    (-)
  • A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
  • (label) A large quantity or number.
  • (label) Excrement.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "mess")
    Synonyms
    * see also

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To make a mess of.
  • (label) To throw into confusion.
  • (label) To interfere.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from "mess") * messy * mess around * mess up * mess with

    External links

    *

    References

    *

    Anagrams

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    mossed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (moss)

    • moss

    English

    (wikipedia moss)

    Noun

  • Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly ).
  • (countable) A kind or species of such plants.
  • (informal) Any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure.
    • Spanish moss'''; Irish '''moss'''; club '''moss .
  • A bog; a fen.
    • the mosses of the Scottish border

    Usage notes

    * The plural form mosses'' is used when more than one kind of moss is meant. The singular ''moss is used referring to a collection of moss plants of the same kind.

    Hyponyms

    * (simple plant) alga, cryptogam, lichen

    Hypernyms

    * (Bryophyta) bryophyte

    Derived terms

    * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * (Bryozoa) * (Bartramia spp. ) * a rolling stone gathers no moss * et al) * black moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * bog moss * ) * carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus ) * * ) * ) * ) * club moss, club-moss, (club-foot moss) (Lycopodiaceae) * ) * ) * ) * enmoss * ) * * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * ) * head moss * ) * ) * Iceland moss () * idle-moss * Irish moss (Chondrus crispus ) * ) * (Tillandsia usneoides ) * ) * moss-agate * moss animal, (Bryozoa) * moss-back, mossback * moss-backed, mossbacked, mossy-backed * moss-bag * moss-bank * moss-basket * moss-bass * ) * moss-berry, (Vaccinium oxycoccos ) * (Botaurinae) * moss-box * ) * moss-carder, ) * ) * spp. ) * (Bryozoa) * ) * * ) * moss-earth * mossed * mosser * mossery * moss-fiber, moss-fibre * moss-flow * moss frog (Rhacophoridae) * mossful * moss-gold () * moss green * moss-grown, mossgrown * moss-hag, moss-hagg * moss-hagger * * moss-head * * moss-house * mossify * mossland * mossless * moss-litter * ) * moss-oak * moss opal * moss-peat * ) * mossplant * (Bryozoa) * moss-rake * moss-reeve * ) * ) * moss-seat * moss-starch * moss stitch * moss-tenant * moss-trooper * mosstroopery * moss-trooping * moss-whin () * ) * moss-wood * moss-work * mossy * oak moss * pearl moss (Chondrus crispus ) * peat-moss * ) * reindeer moss () * * ) * * * ''spp. ) * snake moss () * Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides ) * spike moss (Selaginellaceae) * ) * tree-moss * unmossed * white moss

    Verb

  • To become covered with moss.
    • An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.
  • To cover (something) with moss.

    • See also

    * muscoid

    References

    * A New English dictionary on historical principles , Volume 6, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions, editors, Clarendon Press, 1908, pages 684-6 ----