muss

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

muss
    n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a
         mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn:
         {mess}, {messiness}, {muss}, {mussiness}]
    v 1: make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair" [syn:
         {muss}, {tussle}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Muss \Muss\, n.
   A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess,
   but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Muss \Muss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mussed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Mussing}.]
   To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple; -- often used with up;
   as, the wind mussed up my hair. [Colloq. U.S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OE. mus a mouse. See {Mouse}.]
   A term of endearment. [Obs.] See {Mouse}. --B. Jonson.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OF. mousche a fly, also, the play called
   muss, fr. L. musca a fly.]
   A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be
   taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
   --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "muss":
      botch, botchery, broil, clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray,
      dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, donnybrook, fracas,
      fray, free-for-all, hash, knock-down-and-drag-out, litter, melee,
      mess, mess up, misarrange, mix-up, muddle, mull, muss up, ruction,
      ruffle, rumple, scatter, set-to, shambles, tousle

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