Muss vs Messy - What's the difference?
muss | messy |
to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy
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.
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
As a verb muss
is .As a noun messy is
.muss
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Etymology 1
Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) . See mouse.Anagrams
* ----messy
English
Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}