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mess  (ms)
n.
1. A disorderly or dirty accumulation, heap, or jumble: left a mess in the yard.
2.
a. A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty condition: The kitchen was a mess.
b. A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition; a muddle: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.
c. One that is in such a condition: clothes that were a mess after painting the ceiling; made a mess of their marriage.
3.
a. An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.
b. A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.
4.
a. A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.
b. Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.
c. A mess hall.
v. messed, mess·ing, mess·es
v.tr.
1. To make disorderly or soiled; clutter or foul: a puppy that still messes the floor.
2. To botch; bungle.
v.intr.
1. To cause or make a mess.
2. To use or handle something carelessly; fiddle: messed with the blender until he broke it.
3. To intrude; interfere: messing in the neighbors' affairs.
4. To take a meal in a military mess.
Phrasal Verbs:
mess around Informal
1. To pass time in aimless puttering.
2. To associate casually or playfully: liked to mess around with pals on days off.
3. Informal To be sexually unfaithful.
mess up
1. Informal To make a mistake, especially from nervousness or confusion: messed up and dropped the ball.
2. Slang To beat up; manhandle: got messed up in a brawl.

[Middle English mes, course of a meal, food, group of people eating together, from Old French, from Late Latin missus, from Latin, past participle of mittere, to place.]

mess [mɛs]
n
1. a state of confusion or untidiness, esp if dirty or unpleasant the house was in a mess
2. a chaotic or troublesome state of affairs; muddle his life was a mess
3. Informal a dirty or untidy person or thing
4. (Cookery) Archaic a portion of food, esp soft or semiliquid food
5. (Military) a place where service personnel eat or take recreation an officers' mess
6. (Military) a group of people, usually servicemen, who eat together
7. (Military) the meal so taken
mess of pottage a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value
vb
1. (tr; often foll by up) to muddle or dirty
2. (intr) to make a mess
3. (intr; often foll by with) to interfere; meddle
4. (Military) (intr; often foll by with or together) Military to group together, esp for eating
[from Old French mes dish of food, from Late Latin missus course (at table), from Latin mittere to send forth, set out]

Mess a confused mixture; a group of four; a group of people who regularly eat together; the quantity of milk at one milking; a quantity of food; a haul of fish. Also, officers’ mess, sergeants’ mess, etc.
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