MESS

mess, mess hall

(noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

mess

(noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

mess

(noun) soft semiliquid food; “a mess of porridge”

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(noun) (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “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”

fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish

(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation; “he got into a terrible fix”; “he made a muddle of his marriage”

mess, messiness, muss, mussiness

(noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness; “the house was a mess”; “she smoothed the mussiness of the bed”

mess, mess up

(verb) make a mess of or create disorder in; “He messed up his room”

mess

(verb) eat in a mess hall

Source: WordNet® 3.1

---

Etymology 1

Noun

mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

(euphemistic) Excrement.

(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Synonyms

• see also disorder

Verb

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

(transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.

To make soiled by defecating.

(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.

(intransitive) To interfere.

(used with "with") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.

Etymology 2

Noun

mess (plural messes)

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

(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.

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

A building or room in which mess is eaten.

A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).

(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)

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess.

(intransitive) To belong to a mess.

(intransitive) To eat (with others).

(transitive) To supply with a mess.

Anagrams

• MSEs, MSes, Mses, Mses., SEMs, SMEs

Source: Wiktionary

---

Mess, n.

Definition: Mass; church service. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mess, n. Etym: [OE. mes, OF. mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place (e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Mass religious service.]

1. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. Milton.

2. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess. Shak.

3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] Latimer.

4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]

5. Etym: [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.]

Definition: A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

Mess, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Messed; p. pr. & vb. n. Messing.]

Definition: To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. Marryat.

Mess, v. t.

Definition: To supply with a mess.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

---

Do you know this game?

Wordscapes is a popular word game consistently in the top charts of both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The Android version has more than 10 million installs. This guide will help you get more coins in less than two minutes of playing the game. Continue reading Wordscapes: Get More Coins