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Rumple vs Mussy - What's the difference?

rumple | mussy |

As a verb rumple

is to make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.

As an adjective mussy is

having been mussed, messy, rumpled.

As a noun mussy is

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rumple

English

Verb

  • To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
    • I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
  • * Burke
    • They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
  • To muss.
  • To tousle.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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 !