US /mʌs/ UK /mʌs/
verb noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to make untidy or dishevel, especially the hair

    Please don't muss my hair before the photographs are taken.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to make untidy or dishevel,... dishevelrumpletousleruffledisarrangedisordermess
Opposites
Word family
Derived forms mussymussed
Related forms mess

Etymology

A 19th-century American English variant of mess, ultimately from Old French mes ('portion of food'), from Latin missus ('a course at a meal'), from mittere ('to send, place').

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