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Mess   /mɛs/   Listen
Mess

noun
1.
A state of confusion and disorderliness.  Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness.  "She smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
2.
Informal terms for a difficult situation.  Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle.  "He made a muddle of his marriage"
3.
Soft semiliquid food.
4.
A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.
5.
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.  Synonym: mess hall.
6.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
verb
(past & past part. messed; pres. part. messing)
1.
Eat in a mess hall.
2.
Make a mess of or create disorder in.  Synonym: mess up.



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"Mess" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be all right then! He'll follow me like a lamb. He doesn't want to mess around with such. But she's got ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... hard, I'm afraid I'm making a mess of it," she whispered to herself anxiously, as she ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... will!" exclaimed the manager. Then he put out his hand impulsively. "I beg your pardon. If I had known—but if we're ever out of this mess, I may give a ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... its lighter side. The young folks especially found fun in seeing a guileless fellow step into the skimming hole concealed by cane stalks. The sport was complete when the bewildered fellow struggled to free himself from the sticky mess. But the woman was quick to help him out of his plight by providing a change of raiment and soap and water and clean towels, "yonder in the kitchen-house." She knew what ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... an uproar making a mess of the situations he has witnessed. Fessenden, however, has learned a lesson and is willing to leave the servant ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts • Paul Dickey


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