单词 | mussiness |
释义 | mussinessn. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Untidiness, esp. in a person's dress. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] undaftiness1555 slutterya1586 messiness1836 unneatness1836 untidiness1845 slip-sloppery1848 unkemptness1856 mussiness1869 untrimmedness1883 streelishness1936 1869 Independent (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 1/6 A general appearance of mussiness, characteristic of the man. 1893 Atlantic Monthly 72 173 He nearly lost his balance, in his violent attempts to dress his beautiful plumage and remove the last remnant of nest mussiness. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 4 Apr. 19 Mr. Liebman's skidding writer..shares his general mussiness—not to mention his baseball cap and obsession—with an earlier Simon character, Felix Madison. 2000 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 13 Feb. 76 Only love could have excused this before-breakfast mussiness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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