muss up en · VERB
Meanings
- (transitive) To thoroughly muss something.
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(obsolete, slang) To treat roughly; to beat up.
Tuxedo is a good-hearted, gentle, quiet, soft-voiced tobacco[…] no "fighting spirit" in it anywhere to muss up your tongue.
1916 March 11, “[advertisement] You Men Who Have Pipes”, in Saturday Evening Post:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muss, up.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mussing up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| musses up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mussed up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mussed up | Tense=Past | lexicographic |