Muss vs Mu - What's the difference?
muss | mu |
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.
The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
(uncountable) The name of a mythical floating island.
A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to 666 and 2/3 meters squared.
* 2007 — Chang Liu, “Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949”,
As nouns the difference between muss and mu
is that muss is a disorderly mess while mu is the 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.As a verb muss
is to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.As an interjection mu is
neither yes nor no.As a proper noun Mu is
a hypothetical continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.muss
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) . See mouse.Anagrams
* ----mu
English
(wikipedia mu)Etymology 1
From (etyl) letter .Noun
Derived terms
* mu-meson, muon * mu-metalEtymology 2
From (etyl)Usage notes
Used to answer a question that if answered with "yes" or "no" would imply something false.Etymology 3
From (etyl) ) (m?)Noun
(mu)page 87
- Of 114 village farming families, only ten had more than 30 mu''''' of land and only five had more than 60 '''''mu .