What's The Definition Of Mess?
[n] a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
[n] a meal eaten by service personnel
[n] soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
[n] (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
[n] informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
[n] a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
[v] make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
[v] eat in a mess; in the military
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mess: batch |
deal |
fix |
flock |
good deal |
great deal |
hatful |
heap |
hole |
jam |
kettle of fish |
lot |
mass |
mess hall |
mess up |
messiness |
mickle |
mint |
muckle |
muddle |
muss |
mussiness |
peck |
pickle |
pile |
plenty |
pot |
quite a little |
raft |
sight |
slew |
spate |
stack |
tidy sum |
wad |
whole lot |
whole slew
Related Terms | Find terms related to Mess: all sorts |
allotment |
allowance |
amount |
arsy-varsiness |
assemblage |
assortment |
baboon |
bad job |
bag |
batch |
befoul |
befuddlement |
benasty |
bevue |
bewilderment |
big end |
bigger half |
bind |
bit |
bitch up |
bite |
blemish |
blot |
blow |
blunder |
board |
bobble |
boggle |
bollix |
bonehead play |
boner |
boo-boo |
botch |
botchery |
bother |
botheration |
bread |
broad spectrum |
budget |
bunch |
bungle |
butt in |
C ration |
cafeteria |
can of worms |
carrion |
chaos |
Chinese puzzle |
chunk |
cloud |
clump |
clumsy performance |
cluster |
clutch |
clutter |
commission |
commons |
complex |
complication |
concoction |
confuse |
confusion |
conglomeration |
considerable |
contaminate |
contingent |
copse |
corrupt |
corruption |
count |
crop |
crunch |
cut |
dally |
dandruff |
daze |
deal |
decay |
defile |
derange |
destiny |
destroy |
difficulty |
dilemma |
dine |
dinette |
dining car |
dining hall |
dining room |
dining saloon |
dirty |
disarrange |
disarrangement |
disarray |
discombobulation |
discomfiture |
discomposure |
disconcertion |
dishevel |
dislocate |
disorder |
disorganization |
disorganize |
disorientation |
disturbance |
dividend |
dog |
dole |
doodle |
dose |
embarrassing position |
embarrassment |
emergency rations |
end |
entertainment |
equal share |
error |
etourderie |
excrement |
eyesore |
farrago |
fate |
feed |
fiasco |
field rations |
filth |
fine how-do-you-do |
fix |
flirt |
flub |
fluff |
flummox |
flunk |
flurry |
fluster |
flutter |
fodder |
fog |
fool around |
foozle |
forage |
foul |
foul matter |
foul up |
foul-up |
frenzy |
fright |
fuddle |
fuddlement |
fumble |
furfur |
gallimaufry |
gangrene |
gargoyle |
gaucherie |
gob |
gobs |
good deal |
goof up |
Gordian knot |
grass |
gratify |
graze |
great deal |
group |
grouping |
groupment |
grove |
gum up |
hag |
half |
halver |
harridan |
hash |
hassock |
haze |
heap |
heaps |
hell to pay |
helping |
helter-skelter |
higgledy-piggledy |
hobble |
hodgepodge |
hot water |
hotchpot |
hotchpotch |
how-do-you-do |
hunk |
hysteron proteron |
imbroglio |
infect |
interest |
interfere with |
intervene |
jam |
jumble |
jungle |
K ration |
kettle of fish |
knot |
labyrinth |
large amount |
lashings |
litter |
loads |
lot |
lots |
louse up |
lump |
magpie |
mash |
mass |
maze |
meal |
meals |
meander |
measure |
meat |
meddle with |
medley |
meed |
melange |
mesh |
mess around |
mess hall |
mess up |
mess with |
messroom |
mingle-mangle |
mint |
misarrange |
miscellany |
miscue |
mishmash |
mist |
mistake |
mix |
mixed bag |
mixture |
mix-up |
modicum |
moiety |
monster |
monstrosity |
morass |
much |
muck |
muck up |
mucus |
muddle |
muddlement |
muff |
mull |
muss |
muss up |
nasty |
no beauty |
number |
obscenity |
odds and ends |
off day |
olio |
olla podrida |
omnium-gatherum |
oodles |
ordure |
pack |
parcel |
parlous straits |
part |
pass |
pasticcio |
pastiche |
pasture |
patchwork |
peck |
percentage |
perplex |
perplexity |
perturbation |
philander |
pickle |
piece |
pile |
piles |
pinch |
play |
plight |
pollute |
portion |
pot |
pother |
potpourri |
potter |
power |
predicament |
pretty pass |
pretty pickle |
pretty predicament |
proportion |
provision |
pucker |
puddle |
pull to pieces |
pus |
putrid matter |
putter |
quagmire |
quandary |
quantity |
quantum |
quicksand |
quite a little |
quota |
raft |
rafts |
rake-off |
ration |
rations |
ravel |
refection |
refectory |
refreshment |
regale |
regalement |
repas |
repast |
restaurant |
rot |
Rube Goldberg contraption |
ruffle |
ruin |
rumple |
run around |
sad work |
salad |
salle a manger |
salmagundi |
satisfy |
sauce |
scads |
scarecrow |
scatter |
scramble |
scrape |
screw up |
screw-up |
scurf |
scuz |
seduce |
segment |
shambles |
share |
shock |
short commons |
shuffle |
sight |
sleep around |
slew |
slews |
slice |
slime |
slip |
slough |
small amount |
small share |
smorgasbord |
smut |
snafu |
snake pit |
snarl |
snot |
sordes |
spate |
spot |
spread |
squeeze |
stack |
stacks |
stake |
stew |
sticky wicket |
stock |
stook |
strait |
straits |
stumble |
sully |
sum |
sustain |
swamp |
sweat |
swivet |
table |
taint |
tamper with |
tangle |
tangled skein |
tarnish |
teratism |
thicket |
tidy sum |
tight spot |
tight squeeze |
tightrope |
tinker |
tizzy |
topsy-turviness |
topsy-turvydom |
tousle |
toy |
treat |
tricky spot |
trifle |
trip |
trouble |
tucker |
tuft |
tumble |
turmoil |
turn upside down |
tussock |
ugly duckling |
unholy mess |
unsettlement |
untidiness |
upset |
wad |
wads |
washout |
webwork |
welter |
what you will |
wheels within wheels |
whole slew |
wilderness |
wine and dine |
wisp |
witch |
wreck |
wreckage
See Also | aliment |
alimentation |
deluge |
difficulty |
dining room |
diningroom |
disarray |
disorder |
disorder |
disorderliness |
dog's breakfast |
dog's dinner |
eat |
flood |
inundation |
large indefinite amount |
large indefinite quantity |
meal |
nourishment |
nutriment |
nutrition |
officer's mess |
repast |
sustenance |
torrent |
training table |
victuals
Mess In Webster's Dictionary
\Mess\, n.
Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Mess\, n. [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. [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.] 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}.]
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.
To supply with a mess.
\Mess\, v. t.
To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble;
to disturb.
It was n't right either to be messing another man's
sleep. --Scribner's
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