mell of a hess
/ˈˌmɛl əv ə ˈˌhɛs/US informal
noun
A complete mess.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Port Arthur News. From hell of a mess with euphemistic or humorous transposition of initial letters.
- mountain balm
- mountain barometer
- mountain beaver
- mountain beech
- mountain bell
- mountain bike
- mountain biker
- mountain biking
- mountain birch
- mountain bison
- mountain blackbird
- mountain blue
- mountain bluebird
- mountainboard
- mountainboarder
- mountain boomer
- mountain boy
- mountain breeze
- mountain buffalo
- mountain building
- mountain burnet
- mountain butter
- mountain cabbage
- mountain cat
- mountain-cedar