mussy
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It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash.
From Time Magazine Archive
His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them.
From Time Magazine Archive
They bought him glasses with rectangular wire rims and caked his hair with endless product so that he had a kind of curly, mussy 'do like the coolest kids at school.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
There wasn’t a man of us that night as didn’t feel sure as the old light-ship would be dragging her anchors and going ashore somewhere, when, “Lord ha’ mussy upon us,” I says.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville
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