muss
verb/mʌs/
/mʌs/
(North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they muss | /mʌs/ /mʌs/ |
| he / she / it musses | /ˈmʌsɪz/ /ˈmʌsɪz/ |
| past simple mussed | /mʌst/ /mʌst/ |
| past participle mussed | /mʌst/ /mʌst/ |
| -ing form mussing | /ˈmʌsɪŋ/ /ˈmʌsɪŋ/ |
- muss something (up) to make somebody’s clothes or hair untidy
- Hey, don't muss up my hair!
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMuss is used with these nouns as the object:- hair
Word Originmid 19th cent. (also as a noun in the sense ‘disturbance or row’): apparently a variant of mess.Want to learn more?
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