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Mussy  adj.  Disarranged; rumpled. (Colloq. U.S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mussy" Quotes from Famous Books



... and mussy shuffling into wraps recalled her. It was indescribably sad, this swimming up to reality. The buttoning of her little tippet. The smell of damp umbrellas. Then the jamming down the aisle toward the late and rainy afternoon. At the door they were suddenly crushed up against Horace Lindsley, ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... was that you found in the door? It's a mussy we wasn't all a-murdered and a-plundered in cold blood, by the light o' the moon! Mr. Jennings's night-key it must have been, to be sure! Boarders must be warned and watched. When Mrs. Toyler's nephew's night-key was found ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... hab mussy on a poor ole niggur, an' bring her safely to her journey's end, for mussy dese chillun hab none!" ejaculated Aunt Susan, as another sharp curve was so rapidly turned that the very trees and fences seemed rushing madly away ...
— Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... stay for her? If she thinks that I'm going to make myself her clerk, she's mistaken. It may be all very well for you, Mussy, but it won't do for me. I'm not dependent on her, and I don't want to ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Mussy" :   messy, mussiness, muss, untidy



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