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Mussy vs Massy - What's the difference?

mussy | massy |

As adjectives the difference between mussy and massy

is that mussy is having been mussed, messy, rumpled while massy is heavy; massive.

As nouns the difference between mussy and massy

is that mussy is while massy is .

mussy

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having been mussed, messy, rumpled.

    • Etymology 2

    African-American dialect pronunciation of mercy.

    Noun

  • * 1937 , , Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), page 170:
    • God have mussy !

    massy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Heavy; massive.
  • * 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
    • Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;
  • * 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic
    • When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro
  • * 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics , volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73
    • We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    • "But Lors ha' massy , how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...

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