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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Perhaps a corruption ofMiddle Englishmesh(“mash”), comparemuss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare alsoOld Englishmes(“dung, excrement”).

Noun

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mess (countable anduncountable,pluralmesses)

  2. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
    • 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4:
      No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of amess but it's actually a very delicateecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like therainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest todie, do ya?
    Synonyms:disorder;see alsoThesaurus:disorder
    He made amess of it.
    My bedroom is such amess; I need to tidy up.
  3. (colloquial) A largequantity ornumber.
    My boss dumped a wholemess of projects on my desk today.
    She brought back amess of fish to fix for supper.
  4. (euphemistic)Excrement.
    There was dogmess all along the street.
    Did you hear that? It scared themess out of me.
  5. (figuratively) A person in astate of (especiallyemotional)turmoil ordisarray; an emotionalwreck.
    Between the pain and the depression, I'm amess.
    He's been amess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
Translations
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confusion of things

Verb

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mess (third-person singular simple presentmesses,present participlemessing,simple past and past participlemessed)

  1. (transitive, often used with "up") To makeuntidy ordirty.
    1. To makesoiled bydefecating.
      • 2000 March 12, Tom Armstrong,Marvin (comic):
        It seems like all you do is cry, eat, andmess your diapers!
    2. To makesoiled byejaculating.
  2. (transitive, often used with "up") To throw intodisorder or toruin.
    • 1905, Arthur Colton,The Belted Seas‎[1], page76:
      But it wasn't right to bemessing another man's sleep with tidal waves that didn't belong to the other man.
  3. (intransitive) To interfere.
    This doesn't concern you. Don'tmess.
Translations
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screw around

Derived terms

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terms derived from "mess" (etymology 1)

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishmes, partly fromOld Englishmēse,mēose(“table”), a vernacular loan fromLatin/Late Latinmē(n)sa(“table; meal”); and partly fromOld Frenchmes,Late Latinmissum, frommittō(“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). Seemission, and compareMass(“religious service”).

Noun

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mess (pluralmesses)

  2. (obsolete)Mass; achurchservice.
  4. (archaic) A quantity offood set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to ananimal at one time.
    • c. 1555,Hugh Latimer,letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel
      amess of pottage
    • a.1645,John Milton, “L’Allegro”, inPoems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth forHumphrey Mosely, […], published1646,→OCLC:
      At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other countrymesses.
    • 1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell,Hobson-Jobson:
      [Curry] consists of meat, fish, fruit, or vegetables, cooked with a quantity of bruised spices and turmeric[…]; and a little of this gives a flavour to a largemess of rice.
  6. (collective) A number of persons whoeat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
    thewardroommess
  8. A building or room in which mess is eaten.
    • 1956,Anthony Burgess,Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page20:
      The policemess had formerly been a maternity home for the wives of the Sultans of the state. Faded and tatty, peeling, floorboards eaten and unpolished, its philoprogenitive glory was a memory only.
  9. A set offour(from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
  10. (US) Themilk given by acow at one milking.
  11. (collective) Agroup ofiguanas.
    Synonym:slaughter
  12. (cooking) Adessert of fruit andcream, similar to afool.
    • 1913,Pearson's Magazine, volume 36, part 2, page 373:
      Eton is renowned for its "messes," and "strawberrymess" is Empress of them all, with raspberrymess as a very good second. It does not at all convey the joys of a "mess" to say that it consists of iced fruit and cream, and somewhat resembles a "fool." It is a thing apart, and should be approached with bated breath and unimpaired capacity.
    • 1916, Edward Frederic Benson,David Blaize, page284:
      "I'll stand you both strawberrymess." It was perfectly impossible for David not to feel elated at sitting down to strawberry-mess with two members of the eleven, in the full light of day, and in sight of the school generally[…]
    • 2014, Lindsey Bareham,Just One Pot:
      Etonmess, for example, which is another name for strawberry fool, links the name of a famous public school with disorder or the army slang for a meal, [...] One friend remembered a bananamess of mashed banana with two scoops of ice cream and loads of cream, and thought the strawberry version something that might be served at the 4th June College picnic, [...]
    • 2015, Darra Goldstein, Sidney Mintz, Michael Krondl, Laura Mason,The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Oxford University Press, USA,→ISBN, page243:
      Similar desserts [to Eton Mess] include LancingMess (made with bananas), served at Lancing College in Sussex, and Clare College Mush […]
    • 2020, Nigel Napier-Andrews,Gentleman's Portion: The Cookbook:
      One Old Etonian rages that at school the dessert was simply called 'strawberrymess' and was very popular in the tuck shop. It is only outside Eton that the school's name has been added. A similar 'bananamess' is credited to School in Sussex,[…]
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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church service—seeMass
Further reading
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Verb

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mess (third-person singular simple presentmesses,present participlemessing,simple past and past participlemessed)

  1. (intransitive) To takemeals with a mess.
  2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  3. (intransitive) Toeat (with others).
    • 1836,George Simpson & al.,HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18:
      Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted tomess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...
    Imess with the wardroom officers.
  4. (transitive) To supply with a mess.

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Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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metsz +‎-j(personal suffix)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mess

  1. second-personsingularsubjunctivepresentindefinite ofmetsz

Maltese

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Root
m-s-s
3 terms

Etymology

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FromArabicمَسَّ(massa).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mess (imperfectjmiss,past participlemimsus)

  1. totouch
    • 2022,Nadia Mifsud,meta tinfetaq il-folla, Ede Books,→ISBN:
      f’żarbun ġa ssikkat. irkiekel dahri
      tat-terrakotta － ’kktmisshom,
      isiru frak. dil-belt tentakli waħedha －
      għoddha qalftitni fatat.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (figurative) totouch, toaffect

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofmess
positive forms
singularplural
1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
perfectmmessejtmessejtmessmessejnamessejtumessew
fmesset
imperfectmmmisstmissjmissmmissutmissujmissu
ftmiss
imperativemissmissu
negative forms
singularplural
1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
perfectmmessejtxmessejtxmessxmessejniexmessejtuxmessewx
fmessitx
imperfectmmmissxtmissxjmissxmmissuxtmissuxjmissux
ftmissx
imperativetmissxtmissux

Manx

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Etymology

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FromOld Irishmess(“nuts”), fromProto-Celtic*messus(“acorn”). Cognate withIrishmeas(“fruit, mast”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mess m (genitive singularmess,pluralmessyn)

  1. (botany)fruit

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation ofmess
radicallenitioneclipsis
messvessunchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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mess

  1. imperative ofmesse

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Celtic*messus(“judgement”), fromProto-Indo-European*med-.

Noun

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mess m (genitivemessa,nominative pluralmesai)

  1. verbal noun ofmidithir
  2. judgment

For quotations using this term, seeCitations:mess.

Declension
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Masculine u-stem
singulardualplural
nominativemessmessLmessaeH,mesai
vocativemessmessLmessu
accusativemessNmessLmessu
genitivemessoH,messaHmessoL,messaLmessaeN
dativemessLmessaibmessaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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FromProto-Celtic*messus(“acorn”).

Noun

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mess m (genitivemessa)

  1. (collective)tree nuts,mast
Descendants
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Further reading

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Mutation

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Mutation ofmess
radicallenitionnasalization
mess
alsommess after a proclitic
ending in a vowel		mess
pronounced with/β̃(ʲ)-/		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

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Etymology

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Clipping ofsms.

Noun

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mess n

  1. (colloquial)text message
    Synonym:sms

Declension

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Declension ofmess
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemessmess
definitemessetmessets
pluralindefinitemessmess
definitemessenmessens

Derived terms

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Vilamovian

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High Germanmessinc, fromProto-Germanic*masjinga-, of uncertain ultimate origin. Perhaps derived fromAncient GreekΜοσσύνοικοι(Mossúnoikoi,“Mossynoeci”), the name of an ancient people connected with metallurgy; or alternatively fromLatinmassa(“lump (of metal)”).

Noun

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mess n

  1. brass

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