| 单词 | muss |
| 释义 | muss (once / 5524 pages) vn To muss is to mess up. When your grandmother reaches over to muss your hair, she tousles it — you'll have to carefully comb it again before you leave for school. Falling in the mud might make you muss your new jeans, and a strong wind on a boat will muss everyone's hair. While the verb muss means "make untidy," it's almost always used to talk about hair, and occasionally clothing. The word muss has been around since the nineteenth century, and it was probably originally a variation on mess. A muss was once also a term meaning "a fight or disturbance." WORD FAMILYmuss: mussed, musses, mussing, mussy+/mussy: mussiness USAGE EXAMPLESTrump letting Fallon muss his hair is not what got him elected. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) And the quarterback just managed to chuck the ball 53 times in Dallas while barely getting his hair mussed up. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) The matted and mussed hair of the famously bizarre German children’s book character Struwwelpeter was meant to serve as a warning about bad hygiene. Science Magazine(Nov 22, 2016) 1v make messy or untidy the child mussed up my hair Syn|Hyper tussle disarrange destroy the arrangement or order of 2n a state of confusion and disorderliness Syn|Hyper mess, messiness, mussiness disorder, disorderliness a condition in which things are not in their expected places |
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