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Webster 1913 Edition

Mussy

Muss′y

,
Adj.
[From 2d
Muss
.]
Disarranged; rumpled.
[Colloq. U.S.]

Definition 2024

mussy

mussy

English

Adjective

mussy ‎(comparative more mussy, superlative most mussy)

  1. Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Etymology 2

Noun

mussy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural mussies)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of mercy, representing African American Vernacular English.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 170:
      God have mussy!

Etymology

From muss +‎ -y.

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