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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



... the sheer steep of Leucas, far seen of mariners and washed by the Ionian sea, receive of sailors this mess of hand- kneaded barley bread and a libation mingled in a little cup, and the gleam of a brief-shining lamp that drinks with half-saturate mouth from a sparing oil-flask; in recompence whereof be gracious, and ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... when we are going to begin to fit out, and they keep the rooms for us. We both slept there last night. The house is kept by a nice clean woman, the widow of a skipper who was lost with his craft about ten years ago. I have no doubt she can put the lad up too, and he can mess with us. I will go round with him myself; till we get the shrouds up, one is quite enough to ...
— With Cochrane the Dauntless • George Alfred Henty
... silence, until they came to a certain West End corner, where they both descended. Little Mr. Constable's sensations were, if anything, less enviable, and he had not Mr. Plimpton's recuperative powers. He had sold that night, for a mess of pottage, the friendship and respect of three generations. And he had fought, for pay, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... lights and turned out the last lingering idler, for Cap'n Abe preferred to cook for himself. He declared the Widow Gallup did not know how to make a decent chowder, anyway; and as for lobscouse, or the proper frying of a mess of "blood-ends," she was all at sea. He intimated that there were digestive reasons for her husband's death at the ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... adventures with various wealthy men, and always won. Her particularly spectacular adventure was posing, at the instigation of the Duke of Lotzen, as the wife of the Archduke Armand of Valeria; and she stirred up a mess of turmoil until the matter ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott


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