mussy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- mussily adverb
- mussiness noun
Etymology
Origin of mussy
Example Sentences
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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 Literature
Shaw, with his Velcro shoes and mussy hair, was “the absent-minded professor” who hired good people at his engineering company in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Fox said.
From Seattle Times
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 Literature
The Larry O'Brien Trophy will be flying cross-country to Oakland on Saturday, and Golden State will have a chance to mussy it up with joyous fingerprints and champagne baths on Monday night.
From US News
As she walked out of the room, she shook her head and said, “God, it hits you right in the mussy.”
From The New Yorker
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