muss
noun
a state of disorder or untidiness.
had mussed
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past perfectof muss.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The breeze had mussed his hair; I balled my hands in my lap to keep from reaching over and putting it back in place.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Before he had got through with Mr. Meldrum, he had mussed his hair up considerable.
From The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine
She sighed partly because her head ached, partly because the hot trip had mussed her usual fresh trimness, largely because she was going home.
From Mother by Kathleen Thompson Norris
In places they had mussed up the ground as much as a barnyard.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
They had been trying to let him down into the fireplace, and when he got stuck they had poked at him with a clothes pole until they had mussed him up considerably.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
