Wuss vs Muss - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between wuss and muss

is that wuss is while muss is .

is (slang) a weak or ineffectual person.

(en-noun)

(slang) A weak or ineffectual person.

* 1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript

Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss.''

* 1982, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Screenplay)

Mike Damone: You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy''

* 1995, Rob Huizenga, You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise Page 120

...if you got a reputation as a wuss around the league, nobody else would ever even trade for you, or pick you up if you got cut.

* 2003, Andrea P. Roberts, Uncovered: 20 Hints for Men from a Bisexual Woman Page 7

And finally, don't be a wuss . Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.

* 2003, Marc J. Soares, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park Page 21

...stop, study the map, and wait for the others. It's better to be a wuss than a stud.

* pansy, pushover, weakling, wimp

* wuss out

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to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy

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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.

(Shakespeare)

Compare (etyl) . See mouse.

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(obsolete)

(Ben Jonson)

(Webster 1913)

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