Noun: mess
| Singular | mess |
| Plural | messes |
Sample Sentences
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No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya? [2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4]
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He made a mess of it.
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My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
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Messerschmidts! A whole mess of Messerschmidts! [1943 November 20, Daffy the Commando, spoken by Daffy Duck:]
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My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
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She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.
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There was dog mess all along the street.
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Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.
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Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
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He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
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I'm a mess in a dress, can't show up on time even if it would save my life. According to you. [2009, Andrew Frampton, Steve Diamond, “According to You”, in Believe, performed by Orianthi:]
Nouns inflected like mess
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”). See: Old English Nouns '
mes'.
Verbs referencing "mess"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
messe, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
messe.