MUSSY

messy, mussy

(adjective) dirty and disorderly; “a mussy fussy bedroom”; “a child’s messy eating habits”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

mussy (comparative more mussy, superlative most mussy)

Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Etymology 2

Noun

mussy (countable and uncountable, plural mussies)

Eye dialect spelling of mercy.

Source: Wiktionary


Muss"y, a. Etym: [From 2d Muss.]

Definition: Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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