Snarl vs Mess - What's the difference?
snarl | mess |
A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A growl, as of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds
To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
* Spenser
To embarrass; to ensnare.
* Latimer
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
* Milton
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
* 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(label) To take meals with a mess.
(label) To belong to a mess.
(label) To eat (with others).
(label) To supply with a mess.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
(label) A large quantity or number.
(label) Excrement.
(label) To make a mess of.
(label) To throw into confusion.
(label) To interfere.
As nouns the difference between snarl and mess
is that snarl is a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty while mess is (obsolete) mass; church service or mess can be a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.As verbs the difference between snarl and mess
is that snarl is to form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface while mess is (label) to take meals with a mess or mess can be (label) to make a mess of.snarl
English
(wikipedia snarl)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (entangled situation) imbroglioVerb
(en verb)- to snarl a skein of thread
- And from her back her garments she did tear, / And from her head oft rent her snarled hair
- [the] question that they would have snarled him with
- It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
Antonyms
* unsnarlExternal links
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* ----mess
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).Noun
(es)- A mess of pottage.
- At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .
- the wardroom mess
- But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,
- (Latimer)