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Muso vs Muss - What's the difference?

muso | muss |

As nouns the difference between muso and muss

is that muso is diminutive of lang=en while muss is a disorderly mess.

As a verb muss is

to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

muso

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, informal) .
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  • , title=Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth , group=alt.music.journalism , author=Justin French , date=May 5 , year=2000 , passage=I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso , rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work... citation
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  • , title=Darn it! , group=aus.culture.true-blue , author=Gary Meadows , date=March 5 , year=2001 , passage=Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos . citation
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  • , title=[long] will the real goth please stand up , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=Mr Q. Z. Diablo , date=March 27 , year=2001 , passage=Don't blame the musos'.  Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs.  You don't imagine for a moment that ' musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public.  Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD. citation

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    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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