Mess

Noun

 * 1)  Mass; church service.
 * 2) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
 * A mess of pottage.
 * 1) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
 * The wardroom mess.
 * 1) A set of four; — from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Verb

 * 1)  To take meals with a mess.
 * 2)  To belong to a mess.
 * 3)  To eat (with others).
 * I mess with the wardroom officers.
 * 1)  To supply with a mess.

Noun

 * 1) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
 * He made a mess of it.
 * 1)  A large quantity or number.
 * My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
 * 1)  excrement
 * There was dog mess all along the street.
 * Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:disorder

Adjectives for Mess
nasty; dreadful; horrible; entire; filthy; viscid; savory; unholy; utmost; jovial; hoggish.

Thesaurus
C ration, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, K ration, Rube Goldberg contraption, all sorts, allotment, allowance, amount, arsy-varsiness, assemblage, assortment, baboon, bad job, bag, batch, befoul, befuddlement, benasty, bevue, bewilderment, big end, bigger half, bind, bit, bitch up, bite, blemish, blot, blow, blunder, board, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, botchery, bother, botheration, bread, broad spectrum, budget, bunch, bungle, butt in, cafeteria, can of worms, carrion, chaos, chunk, cloud, clump, clumsy performance, cluster, clutch, clutter, commission, commons, complex, complication, concoction, confuse, confusion, conglomeration, considerable, contaminate, contingent, copse, corrupt, corruption, count, crop, crunch, cut, dally, dandruff, daze, deal, decay, defile, derange, destiny, destroy, difficulty, dilemma, dine, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dining saloon, dirty, disarrange, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, disturbance, dividend, dog, dole, doodle, dose, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency rations, end, entertainment, equal share, error, etourderie, excrement, eyesore, farrago, fate, feed, fiasco, field rations, filth, fine how-do-you-do, fix, flirt, flub, fluff, flummox, flunk, flurry, fluster, flutter, fodder, fog, fool around, foozle, forage, foul, foul matter, foul up, foul-up, frenzy, fright, fuddle, fuddlement, fumble, furfur, gallimaufry, gangrene, gargoyle, gaucherie, gob, gobs, good deal, goof up, grass, gratify, graze, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, gum up, hag, half, halver, harridan, hash, hassock, haze, heap, heaps, hell to pay, helping, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hobble, hodgepodge, hot water, hotchpot, hotchpotch, how-do-you-do, hunk, hysteron proteron, imbroglio, infect, interest, interfere with, intervene, jam, jumble, jungle, kettle of fish, knot, labyrinth, large amount, lashings, litter, loads, lot, lots, louse up, lump, magpie, mash, mass, maze, meal, meals, meander, measure, meat, meddle with, medley, meed, melange, mesh, mess around, mess hall, mess up, mess with, messroom, mingle-mangle, mint, misarrange, miscellany, miscue, mishmash, mist, mistake, mix, mix-up, mixed bag, mixture, modicum, moiety, monster, monstrosity, morass, much, muck, muck up, mucus, muddle, muddlement, muff, mull, muss, muss up, nasty, no beauty, number, obscenity, odds and ends, off day, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, oodles, ordure, pack, parcel, parlous straits, part, pass, pasticcio, pastiche, pasture, patchwork, peck, percentage, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, philander, pickle, piece, pile, piles, pinch, play, plight, pollute, portion, pot, pother, potpourri, potter, power, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, proportion, provision, pucker, puddle, pull to pieces, pus, putrid matter, putter, quagmire, quandary, quantity, quantum, quicksand, quite a little, quota, raft, rafts, rake-off, ration, rations, ravel, refection, refectory, refreshment, regale, regalement, repas, repast, restaurant, rot, ruffle, ruin, rumple, run around, sad work, salad, salle a manger, salmagundi, satisfy, sauce, scads, scarecrow, scatter, scramble, scrape, screw up, screw-up, scurf, scuz, seduce, segment, shambles, share, shock, short commons, shuffle, sight, sleep around, slew, slews, slice, slime, slip, slough, small amount, small share, smorgasbord, smut, snafu, snake pit, snarl, snot, sordes, spate, spot, spread, squeeze, stack, stacks, stake, stew, sticky wicket, stock, stook, strait, straits, stumble, sully, sum, sustain, swamp, sweat, swivet, table, taint, tamper with, tangle, tangled skein, tarnish, teratism, thicket, tidy sum, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tinker, tizzy, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, toy, treat, tricky spot, trifle, trip, trouble, tucker, tuft, tumble, turmoil, turn upside down, tussock, ugly duckling, unholy mess, unsettlement, untidiness, upset, wad, wads, washout, webwork, welter, what you will, wheels within wheels, whole slew, wilderness, wine and dine, wisp, witch, wreck, wreckage

Etymology 1
mes:, mets:,  missum:, < mittere: (e.g. on the table),  mittere:. See mission:, and compare Mass:.

Etymology 2
Perhaps a corruption of mesh:, compare muss:.

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Swedish: mässa

Derived terms

 * mess hall
 * lose the number of one’s mess

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, zootje
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: უწესრიგობა
 * German:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: უწესრიგობა
 * German:
 * German:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese: bagunça
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ความสับสน
 * Welsh: annibendod
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ความสับสน
 * Welsh: annibendod
 * Welsh: annibendod
 * Welsh: annibendod
 * Welsh: annibendod

Derived terms

 * messy


 * mess up


 * mess with

Anagrams

 * Mses.

Noun

 * 1)  fruit

Etymology
From mes:.