mess
IPA: mˈɛs
noun
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
- (euphemistic) Excrement.
- (figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
- (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
- (archaic) 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 an animal at one time.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- A surname from German.
verb
- (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
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