Mess

Definition: Mess

Mess

Noun

1. A state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed".

2. Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage".

3. Soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge".

4. A meal eaten by service personnel.

5. A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.

6. (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".

Verb

1. Eat in a mess; in the military.

2. Make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mess" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Bible

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mess

Apportionment

Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte.

Difficulty

Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.

Disorder

Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles.

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk.

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Mixture

Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation).

Superiority

Supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; gr/trikumia/, climax; culmination; (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus; (remainder); (redundancy).

Unskillfulness

Verb: be unskillful; Adjective: not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.

Whole

Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

Crosswords: Mess

French (club, mess), German (measuring), Manx (fruit, issue).

Don't you mess with me, mister, or I'll divorce you so fast it'll make your head spin (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

You know, one of those manure spreaders jackknifed on the Santa Ana. God-awful mess! You should see my shoes (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

You was really a mess. (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

We've got some carving knives in the abbatoir, a few more in the mess hall (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

WHO DOESN'T KNOW I'M A BIG MESS (Big Mess; performing artist: Devo)

And you don't mess around with Slim (You Don't Mess Around With Jim; performing artist: Jim Croce)

If you decide to mess with mine (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702)

Of the mess you left when you went away (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

And everything's a mess (I'm With You; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

The optimist says, "My cup runneth over, what a blessing." The pessimist says, "My cup runneth over, what a mess. (references; author: unknown)

Another Nice Mess (1972)

A Big Mess (1969)

Mess Mates (1960)

A Miss in a Mess (1949)

Three Pests in a Mess (1945)

You Don't Mess Around With Jim (performing artist: Jim Croce)

Don't Mess With Bill (performing artist: The Marvelettes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Don't Mess with Mrs In-Between (PI Grace Smith Investigations) (reference)

• James in a Mess and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories (A Random House Pictureback) (reference)

• Mouse Mess (reference)

• Nate the Great and the Monster Mess (Nate the Great (Paper)) (reference)

• Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids: Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Don't Mess with My Sister! (reference)

• The Ultimate Revenge 2-Pack (I Spit on Your Grave / Don't Mess with My Sister) (reference)

• Don't Mess With My Sister (reference)

• Sesame Street - Ernie's Big Mess (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Georges Moineau: Mess solennelle de Saint Reim... (reference)

• Don't Mess With My Man [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Mess You Up (reference)

• This Beautiful Mess (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Meridian 8004 Charcoal Basic Bus. Phone with mess. Wait Vol Control (reference)

• Meridian 8009 Black Basic Bus. Phone with mess. Waiting Par.line Ext (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Billy making a mess - boy that stuff takes good. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Water sample bottles in a mess Caption - "Sometimes things go wrong" OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Scientific personnel at mess table after mission. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

The crew mess on the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 112, Auteuil, France. : Mess hall. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[U.S. Army. Hospitals - Military] : [Interior view- Nurses Mess Hall]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Greeting a Navy First Class Mess Attendant or Ship's Cook, during his tour of the Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1942. Navy men present may be recovering at the hospital from injuries received in action. Credit: NAVY.

Mess Attendants manning a 20mm machine gun, in a gun tub beside the flight deck, 9 September 1942. The carrier was then en route from Alameda, California, to the southwest Pacific. Credit: NAVY.

Mid-day mess, 6th Regt. cavalry. Credit: Library of Congress.

It was a great fight while it lasted, boys, now let's get busy and clean up this mess / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He laid the skin down, slit the rabbit along the ribs, shook out the intestines onto the skin, and then threw the mess off into the cotton field

Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like a string of jewels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Because you find mouse droppings and some of the furniture stuffing the mice have used as nesting material, you get a broom and sweep up the mess. As you move around and sweep, tiny particles of fresh urine, droppings and saliva, with the virus in them, get kicked up into the air. This is the aerosolization. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "mess": a devil of a mess ♦ a dickens of a mess ♦ a mess of pottage ♦ be in a pretty mess ♦ don't mess with me! ♦ get into a mess ♦ get into a nice mess ♦ get into mess ♦ get oneself in a mess ♦ get out of a mess ♦ here is a pretty mess ♦ in a mess ♦ it's a mess ♦ make a mess ♦ make a mess in smb.'s pants ♦ make a mess of ♦ make a mess of things ♦ make mess ♦ mess about ♦ mess about with a girl ♦ mess about with smth. ♦ mess around ♦ mess around with ♦ mess beef ♦ mess boy ♦ mess deck ♦ mess hall ♦ mess in ♦ mess jacket ♦ mess kit ♦ mess of potage ♦ mess of pottage ♦ mess room ♦ mess smb.'s hair up ♦ mess smth. about ♦ mess things up ♦ mess tin ♦ mess up ♦ mess up hair ♦ mess with ♦ officer's mess ♦ officers' mess ♦ we all mess together ♦ we are in the deuce of a mess. Additional references.

Beginning with "mess": mess-clearer, mess-deck, mess-dos, mess-hall, mess-mate, mess-mates, mess-room, mess-tin, mess-tins, mess-up, mess-ups.

Ending with "mess": clean-up-the-mess.

Containing "mess": Don't-mess-with-me.

Albanian

telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry), shkatërrim (breakdown, breakup, collapse, decay, decimation, demolition, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, ravage, ruin, wrack, wreck, wrecking), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), prishjke, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), ngatërrim (bewilderment, confusion, embarrassment, embroilment, entanglement, implication, involution, jumble, mingle-mangle, mixing, mixture, muddiness, muss), ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, intricacy, mix, moil, muddle, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss), gjelle, dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), bela (annoyance, bother, curse, disaster, mishap, pest, pickle, trouble), bëj rrëmujë (clutter, disorder, hash, litter, pother), bëj pis (befoul), çrregulloj (confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, downgrade, rumple, tumble, upset), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), ‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏مطعم الصباط, ‏مائدة الصباط, ‏لون من الطعام لين, ‏لخبط (jumble, mess up, shuffle, tousle), ‏ورطة (box, deadlock, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole, hot water, jam, maw, pickle, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, stalemate), ‏تناول الطعام (meal), ‏عدم نظام, ‏ركام (bank, cumulus, drift, heap, jumble, moraine, morass, mound, pile, stuff). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хвърлям в безпорядък, бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, ordure, squalor), неразбория (double dutch, jumble, mix up, muddle, muss), оплесквам (besmear, dash, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, muddle, muff, screw up, slobber, spatter, splash, sully), офицерски стол, гозба, каша (bungle, hash, lash up, mash, mess up, mush, pap), изцапвам (bedraggle, dirty, draggle, foul, slush), цапам (daub, grime, muck, paddle, puddle, soil, stain, sully), ястие (course, dish, plat), храна за кучета, храня се в стол, разхвърлям (clutter, disject, disseminate, litter, muss, overspread), сервираната храна в стол, смешение (confusion), смесица (alloy, amalgam, farrago, gallimaufry, gumbo, intermixture, mash, melange, miscellany, mixture, motley, olio, omnium gatherum, patchwork), столуващите, ярма (mash, Pollard), кърма (aft, poop, provender, quarter, stern). (various references)

Chinese 

雜亂 , 混乱 (Chaotic, Clamorous, Confusion, Disarray, Disordered, disorganise, disorganised, Disorganize, Disorganized, Disorganizing, Muddle, Muddled, Muddling, ravel). (various references)

Czech

nepořádek (disarrangement, disarray, disorder, messiness, tumble, untidiness). (various references)

Danish

vælling (gruel, mush), grød (gruel, mush). (various references)

Dutch

pap (gruel, mush), moes (gruel, jam, marmelade, mush). (various references)

Esperanto

kaĉo (gruel, mush). (various references)

Faeroese

greytur (gruel, mush). (various references)

Farsi 

یک خوراک(.n)(ازغذا), یک ظرف غذا, الوده کردن (Defile, Infect, Muck), اشفته کردن (Embroil, Harrow, Puzzle, Roil, Upset). (various references)

Finnish

sotku (jumble, muddle, tangle), sillisalaatti (jumble, salad of pickled herring and vegetables), sekasotku (gibberish, jumble), sekamelska (medley, muddle), puuro (cooked cereal, gruel, mush, porridge, pudding), pula (abashment, crisis, embarrassment, fix, perplexity, pinch, predicament, shortage), liata (dirty, foul, make a mess of, smear, soil), epäjärjestys (confusion, disarray, disorder). (various references)

French

fouillis, bouillie (pap meals). (various references)

Frisian

brij (gruel, mush). (various references)

German

schlamassel (mix up, quagmire), durcheinander (babel of tongues, bedlam, chaos, clutter, cluttered, confused, confusion, disorder, entanglement, hash, helter-skelter, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, Jumble, mix up, mixed up, muddle, muddled, muddled up, mussy, pell mell, piecemeal, punch-drink, tangle, tumble, upset). (various references)

Greek 

ακαταστασία (disorder, messiness, muss, slatternliness, sloppiness, slovenliness, topsy-turviness, unkemptness, untidiness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מהומה (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, muss, pandemonium, riot, rout, ruction, stir, trouble, tumble, turmoil), לערבב (blend, confuse, jumble, mingle, mix, muddle, scramble, stir, temper), לאכול בחבורה, לטנף (foul, muck, pollute, smudge, soil, sully), לסבך (complicate, confuse, embroil, implicate, involve, mesh, sophisticate), ערבוביה (clutter, confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle, muss, pastiche, tumble, welter), אי סדר (chaos, disarray, disorder, litter, turmoil, untidiness), בלגן (confusion, shambles), בלבול (confusion, disorder, mix up, perplexity), נזיד (broth, porridge, pottage, stew). (various references)

Hungarian

rendetlenség (dinginess, disarray, disorder, hugger-mugger, litter, messiness, mess-up, mix-up, muss, picnic, shambles, tumble, turbulence, untidiness), étkezde (berth, buttery, canteen, eating-house, lunchroom, mess hall, mess room). (various references)

Indonesian

mengotori (dash off, defile, grime, pollute, slobber), ruang makan. (various references)

Italian

mettere in disordine (clutter, confusion, disorder, litter, tousle), mensa (board, cafeteria, canteen, cookhouse, refectory, table), mangiare in mensa, viluppo (chaos, confusion, entanglement, in a muddle, mat, tangle), subbuglio (confusion), scompiglio (chaos, confusion, disarray, hurly burly, muddle), rancio, putiferio (to-do), pasticcio (botch, bungle, fix, jam, pasty, Patty, pie, trouble), impiccio (fix, hindrance, nuisance, scrape), il perdere tempo (Mike), disordine (confusion, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disturbance, helter-skelter, intemperance, muddle, untidiness, upset), confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, carry on, chaos, clutter, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mix up, muddle, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir), casino (affair, brothel, case, club, event, shindy, shooting lodge), brodaglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

会食 (dining together), 台無し (nothing, spoiled), これと同じ (complaining about various things, confusion, easily, effortlessly, game of make-believe, huddle, in this way, jarring sound, jumble, like this, misspelling of "ko n ba n ha", misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", mix, rummaging sound, small and round thing rolling, so, something done together, something that changes frequently, such, suddenly, the same as this, trouble, utterly), めじろ押し (again, already, confusion, extremely, jostling, milling about, more, remarkably, sobbing, soon, ticket-collector, uncontrolled weeping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいしょく (dining together, discharge, dismissal, marine erosion), ごった (confusion, huddle, mix), めちゃ (confusion, extremely), だいなし (nothing, spoiled). (various references)

Korean 

혼잡 (Congestion). (various references)

Manx

brock yn jouyll (unholy mess). (various references)

Papiamen

papa (father, gruel, mush). (various references)

Pig Latin

essmay.(various references)

Portuguese

mingau (corn meal, gruel, mash, mush, pap), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), bagunçar (litter, medley, muss), balbúrdia (agitation, bedlam, confusion, foul-up, fracas, muddle, racket, riot, rumpus, stirabout, tumult, uproar), banzé (confusion, disorder, uproar), barafunda (confusion, muddle, topsy-turvy, turmoil), barulheira (bedlam, confusion, disorder, noise, rowdyism, uproar), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), bagunça (mishmash, muss), embaraço (abashment, awkwardness, catch, cloggyness, complication, constrained, corner, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, fix, mat, mind-breaker, nonplus, obstacle, perplexity, pinch, quandary, rub, trouble), trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, imbroglio, jumble, medley, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, muddle, mull, muss, puddle), iguaria (cheer, dish), papas (gruel, mush, pap), perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, overturn, perturb, pother, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), porcaria (dirt, dirtiness, filth, grubbiness, mire, muck, mud, slovenliness, sludge, squalor, trash), purê (gruel, mush, puree), sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, grime, make it wrong, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), sujeira (dirt, filth, foulness, grime, grubbiness, muck, smirch, smut, soil), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hobble, holdback, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, need, nicety, nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble). (various references)

Romanian

mâncare (bait, bite, board, bread, cheer, chow, dish, eatable, eating, edibles, esculent, food, grub, meal, meat, plate, repast, table, tuck in, victuals), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), masã comunã, mânji (bedaub, beddable, besmear, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, foul, grime, smirch, soil, stain, sully), bãtaie de cap (botheration, nuisance, pain), belea (adversity, affliction, bother, embarrassment, jam, mishap, nuisance, pest, scrape, tribulation, trouble), cârpãci (botch, bungle, mess up, muddle, patch up), careu (Square), comeseni (guests), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), face de mântuialã (fudge, muddle, slobber, underwork), face dezordine în (disarrange, shuffle), fel de mâncare (course, dish, plate), gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, encumbrance, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mire, mishmash, morass, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, scrape, stew, tangle, trouble, upset), lua mas împreunã, târnosi mangalul (muck about, muck around), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), neorânduialã (confusion, disorder), nutreţ (fodder, forage, nutriment, pasturage), popotã, rãvãşi (derange, disturb, scatter), se bãlãci (flounder, paddle, slush about, wallow), harababurã (confusion, fuss, glory-hole, hubbub, jumble, mix up, motley, muddle, pease meal, pell mell, turmoil, welter). (various references)

Russian 

столовый, столовая (canteen, cook-shop, dining room, dining-room, dinning-car-room, eatery, mess hall, ordinary, refectory), грязнить, возиться беспорядок;путаница, варево (concoction), общий стол, неприятность (bete noire, nuisance, plague, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation), беспорядок (bewilderment, box-up, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, messroom, misrule, mix, muss, pell mell, tangle, tumble, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, upset), блюдо (course, dish, dishes, plate, platter), путаница (addlement, bewilderment, box-up, embroilment, hash, imbroglio, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, mix up, mix-up, moil, muddiness, muss, order confusion, ramble, snafu, snafus, welter), производить беспорядок (make havoc of, play havoc among, play havoc with), портить дело (fumble about), похлебка (pottage), пачкать (befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splotch, spot, sully). (various references)

Scottish

strolamas. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

menza (messroom), zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter), u neredu (desultory, haywire, messy, out of order), primati hranu, praviti nered (disorder), obrok (meal, ration, repast), nezgodna situacija, nered (clatter, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, muddle, snafu, trouble, tumble). (various references)

Spanish

enredo (build up, do, embroilment, entanglement, hanky panky, involvement, jam, love affair, maze, muddle, plot, Ravel, tangle). (various references)

Swedish

mäss. (various references)

Turkish

manga (draft, group, mess deck, section, squad), sofra arkadaşları, pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), pisletmek (befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, dirty, grime, make a mess of, make dirty, muck, smutch, soil), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), karmakarışıklık (a dickens of a mess, ballup, cock up, confusion worse confounded, intricacy, mishmash, mixed bag, skein, spaghetti, tangled skein, whirl), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, disheveled, dishevelled, embroiled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), karışık yemek, karışık şey (complex, farrago, hash, hodgpodge, melange, muddle, olio, tangled thing), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), asker sofrasında yemek yemek, asker sofrası, çorba (gippo, potage, pottage, soup). (various references)

Turkmen 

ofiserlik (officer's mess). (various references)

Ukrainian

їдальня (canteen, cook-shop, dining hall, dining room, eatery, refectory), чинити безладдя (disarrange, topsy turvy), обідати спільно, неприємність (contretemps, disagreement, displeasure, nuisance, plague, trouble, ungratefulness, vexation), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng lộn xộn (mix-up, muddle, mull, pell-mell, topsyturvydom, trouble), tình trạng hỗn độn (muss, pell-mell), tình trạng bừa bộn (muss), bả vật chết. (various references)

Welsh

ystremp (blotch, dash, streak), stompio (beat, botch, bungle, pound), stomp (botch, bungle, muddle), saig (dish, meal), llanastr (confusion, lumber), cyboli (bother, muddle, talk nonsense), cawdel (hodge-podge). (various references)

mittere. (various references)

missus. (various references)

mes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "mess": message, messaged, messages, messaging, messaline, messalines, messan, messans, messed, messeigneurs, messenger, messengers, messes, messiah, messiahs, messiahship, messiahships, messianic, messianism, messianisms, messier, messiest, messieurs, messily, messiness, messinesses, messing, messman, messmate, messmates, messmen, messuage, messuages, messy. (additional references)

Words ending with "mess": kermess, kirmess. (additional references)

Words containing "mess": kermesse, kermesses, kirmesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emess, ems, Essc, esss, ezs, masq, mds, meas, mebs, mecs, mees, meese, Meesis, meez, mefs, meis, Meiss, mems, Memsys, mers, merss, mesc, meses, mesi, mesk, mesm, mesn, mesos, mesp, messa, messe, Messo, Messr, mest, mesus, mets, Metsys, mez, mezes, misos, mizz, moises, msc, msd, msds, msee, msrs, mssa, mwezi, mys, mysz, Qes, smes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ems, ess.

-2 letters: em, es, me.

+1 letter: masse, mesas, messy, mises, muses, seams, seems, seism, semes, semis, smews, stems.

+2 letters: amuses, assume, besoms, deisms, dismes, emboss, emeses, emesis, manses, marses, masers, mashes, massed, masses, megass, mensas, menses, meshes, mesnes, mesons, messan, messed, messes, mioses, misers, missed, missel, misses, misset, misuse, moseys, moshes, mossed, mosser, mosses, mouses, mousse, musers, mushes, mussed, mussel, musses, myases, myoses, osmose, remiss, sameks, sebums, sedums, seisms, semens, sensum, serums, sesame, sexism, shames, shmoes, skelms, slimes, smazes, smears, smeeks, smells, smelts, smerks, smiles, smites, smokes, sperms, spumes, steams, stimes, system, tmeses, tmesis.