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Mess   /mɛs/   Listen
Mess

noun
1.
A state of confusion and disorderliness.  Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness.  "She smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
2.
Informal terms for a difficult situation.  Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle.  "He made a muddle of his marriage"
3.
Soft semiliquid food.
4.
A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.
5.
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.  Synonym: mess hall.
6.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
verb
(past & past part. messed; pres. part. messing)
1.
Eat in a mess hall.
2.
Make a mess of or create disorder in.  Synonym: mess up.



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"Mess" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship full of eager passengers, freighted with a rich cargo, steaming at full speed from England to America. Two thirds of a prosperous voyage thus far were over, as in our mess we were beginning to talk of home. Fore and aft the songs of good cheer and hearty merriment rose from deck ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... Natalie. "Look at it. It's horrified at something. I think it must be the mess the roses have made. Can't you see what it's saying? It's ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
... red coats; some of them fond of high play, others fond of drinking: so I have formed no intimacy but with Gascoigne and Henry. My father will see that I do not yet think that the officers of my own mess must all be the first men ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth
... be all right then! He'll follow me like a lamb. He doesn't want to mess around with such. But she's got some ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... English was very fluent, luckily untouched by a Scottish accent. He was always bubbling over with vitality and go, and plunged into English with the recklessness of his race; when he couldn't express himself clearly he invented words which were the joy of the Mess,—"pilliate," "whizzle," "contemporative," and dozens of others that I can't remember; and what used to charm us particularly was that he so often went out of his way to put the accent on the wrong syllable, such as in bilyetting, brigade, attack, ambassador, &c. He ...
— The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade - August 1914 to March 1915 • Edward Lord Gleichen


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