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mess

  [mes]
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–noun
1. a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
2. a person or thing that is dirty, untidy, or disordered.
3. a state of embarrassing confusion: My affairs are in a mess.
4. an unpleasant or difficult situation: She got into a mess driving without a license.
5. a dirty or untidy mass, litter, or jumble: a mess of papers.
6. a group regularly taking their meals together.
7. the meal so taken.
8. mess hall.
9. Naval. messroom.
10. a quantity of food sufficient for a dish or a single occasion: to pick a mess of sweet corn for dinner.
11. a sloppy or unappetizing preparation of food.
12. a dish or quantity of soft or liquid food: to cook up a nice mess of pottage.
13. a person whose life or affairs are in a state of confusion, esp. a person with a confused or disorganized moral or psychological outlook.
–verb (used with object)
14. to make dirty or untidy (often fol. by up): Don't mess the room.
15. to make a mess or muddle of (affairs, responsibilities, etc.) (often fol. by up): They messed the deal.
16. to supply with meals, as military personnel.
17. to treat roughly; beat up (usually followed by up): The gang messed him up.
–verb (used without object)
18. to eat in company, esp. as a member of a mess.
19. to make a dirty or untidy mess.
—Verb phrases
20. mess around or about,
a. Informal. to busy oneself without purpose or plan; work aimlessly or halfheartedly; putter.
b. Informal. to waste time; loaf.
c. Informal. to meddle or interfere.
d. Informal. to involve or associate oneself, esp. for immoral or unethical purposes: His wife accused him of messing around with gamblers.
e. Slang. to trifle sexually; philander.
21. mess in or with, to intervene officiously; meddle: You'll get no thanks for messing in the affairs of others.
22. mess up,
a. to make dirty, untidy, or disordered.
b. to make muddled, confused, etc.; make a mess of; spoil; botch.
c. to perform poorly; bungle: She messed up on the final exam.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME mes < OF: a course at a meal < LL missus what is sent (i.e., put on the table), n. use of ptp. of L mittere to send

Synonyms:
3. muddle, farrago, hodgepodge. 4. predicament, plight, muddle, pickle. 15. confuse, mix up.

Antonyms:
1. tidiness. 3. order. 15. arrange.
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Slang Dictionary
mess

  1. n.
    a hopeless, stupid person. : The guy's a mess!
  2. n.
    dung. (Usually with a.) : There's a mess in Jimmy's diapers, Mom.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

mess 
c.1300, "food for one meal, pottage," from O.Fr. mes "portion of food, course at dinner," from L.L. missus "course at dinner," lit. "placing, putting (on a table, etc.)," from mittere "to put, place," from L. mittere "to send, let go" (see mission). Sense of "mixed food" led to contemptuous use for "jumble, mixed mass" (1828), and figurative sense of "state of confusion" (1834), as well as "condition of untidiness" (1851). Meaning "communal eating place"(esp. a military one) is first attested 1536, from earlier sense of "company of persons eating together" (c.1420), originally a group of four. Messy "untidy" is attested from 1843. To mess with "interfere, get involved" is from 1903; mess up "make a mistake, get in trouble" is from 1933, both orig. Amer.Eng. colloquial.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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