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muss

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–noun
1. a state of disorder or untidiness.
–verb (used with object)
2. to put into disorder; make messy; rumple (often fol. by up).
Origin:
1820–30; perh. b. mess and fuss

Synonyms:
2. mess, disturb, tangle, bedraggle.
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Joe's Crab Shack
Snow, Dungeness and King Crab Made the Way You Love it. Eat at Joe's.
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muss   (mŭs)   
tr.v.   mussed, muss·ing, muss·es
To make messy or untidy; rumple.
n.  A state of disorder; a mess.

[Probably alteration of mess.]
muss'i·ly adv., muss'i·ness n., muss'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

muss  (v.)
"to make untidy," 1837, probably a variant of mess in its sense of "disorder." Earlier (1830) as a noun meaning "disturbance."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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