mussy

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ʌsi

Etymology 1

From muss +‎ -y.

Adjective

mussy (comparative more mussy, superlative most mussy)

  1. Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Etymology 2

Noun

mussy (countable and uncountable, plural mussies)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of mercy, representing African American Vernacular English.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 170:
      God have mussy!
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