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muss

   [muhs]
noun
1.
a state of disorder or untidiness.
verb (used with object)
2.
to put into disorder; make messy; rumple (often followed by up).

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Origin:
1820–30; perhaps blend of mess and fuss

Synonyms
2. mess, disturb, tangle, bedraggle.

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muss (mʌs)
 
—vb (often foll by up)
1.  to make untidy; rumple
 
—n
2.  a state of disorder; muddle
 
[C19: probably a blend of mess + fuss]

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muss
"to make untidy," 1837, probably a variant of mess in its sense of "disorder." Earlier (1830) as a noun meaning "disturbance." Related: Mussed; mussing.
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