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Definition mess

Etymology 1

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“for mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 1 "mixed foods, as for animals".

Noun

mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)

1. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
2. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
3. (euphemistic) Excrement.
4. (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (transitive, often used with up) To make untidy or dirty.
   1. To make soiled by defecating.
2. (transitive, often used with up) To throw into disorder or to ruin.
3. (intransitive) To interfere.
4. (used with with) screw around with, to bother, to be annoying with

Etymology 2

From Middle English mes, partly from Old English m?se, m?ose (“table”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mitt? (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).

Noun

mess (plural messes)

1. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
2. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
3. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
4. A building or room in which mess is eaten.
5. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
6. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Verb

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

1. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
3. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
4. (transitive) To supply with a mess.

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