muss

Dicky catches sight of Duane and guffaws: “Hey, brother, you got coke all over in your muss-tache.”
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band|Grover Lewis|March 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not a lot of fuss and muss here, just good taste and great songs.
The Best Music Blogs|Howard Wolfson|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If that Kickapoo doctor with the p'inted muss-tash kin cure yer, I guess I can.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays|Various
There'll be a lively muss about the time you do, I reckon, and you'll wish you hadn't.
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas|Frank Gee Patchin

He never failed to reduce the pile to a disreputable-looking muss.
In Nesting Time|Olive Thorne Miller
Was einmal sein muss, wird nie zu frh gethan—What must be can never be too quickly done.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
I'm glad I didn't muss myself up this afternoon by hurting that poor mother.
Little Wizard Stories of Oz|L. Frank Baum

British Dictionary definitions for muss

muss

/ (mʌs) US and Canadian informal /

verb

(tr often foll by up) to make untidy; rumple

noun

a state of disorder; muddle

Word Origin for muss

C19: probably a blend of mess + fuss

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