(n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
(n.) A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.
(v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.
(n.) A term of endearment.
Example Sentences:
(1) While studying the ultrastructure of rat celiac nodes, it was stated that lemmocytes from the intercellular plexus develop around separate neuronal processes spiral membranes and multilayer membranes in the shape of concentric "musses".
(2) Tory pundits jeered that the pretty boy, the effete “Dauphin” of Canadian politics, was about to get his famous hair badly mussed.
(3) Almost as soon as two HIV-prevention activists set up outside the pharmacy in the outskirts of Moscow with two huge backpacks of supplies, a skinny young man with mussed hair and an impish grin quickly walked up to them.
(4) Eight anticoagulant rodenticides were used against Rattus norvegicus, R. r. frugivorous and Muss musculus.
(5) Three of those charged on Monday – Mohamed Farah, Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman and Hanad Mustafe Musse – had previously been stopped at a New York City airport in November along with 19-year-old Hamza Ahmed, but had not been charged.
(6) A doe-eyed stare and mussed-up hair denotes natural beauty, as if you've just woken up and can't help looking like this.
(7) Then you'll muss it up with your fingers as soon as you're out of his eyeline and pray that it'll look better once it's washed.
(8) For primary molar amalgams the 4-year survival rates "estimate" ist ein Schätzwert--wenn der Autor es so gemeint hat, muss "estimate" stehenbleiben, andernfalls heisst es "iate" (= Quote) were 67% for Class 1 restorations and for 55% Class 2 fillings.
(9) Methyl methane-sulfonate (MMS)-sensitive, radiation-induced mutants of Aspergillus were shown to define nine new DNA repair genes, musK to musS.
(10) If you're a woman reading this – or, more importantly, looking at the pictures – you will know exactly what I'm talking about: you probably feel like telling me there's a wasp near my hair, just so you can reach out and muss it up a little.
(11) This, say campaigners, is because children are unwilling to speak out against their families and communities and that is why Faduma, along with her daughter, Lul Musse, and granddaughter, Samira Hashi, have agreed to explain how – even in a loving and close-knit family such as theirs – such a custom can be perpetuated.
(12) (Hochstrasser, K., Muss, M., and Werle, E. (1967) Z. Physiol.
(13) Previous injection of cathergen (+)-cyanidonol-3) decreased the region of hepatocytes necrosis, stabilized microvessels diameter and increased muss cells degranulation.
(14) As foreign minister, Boris Johnson now has to lie in the bed he made himself” Nikolaus Blome (@NikolausBlome) Es gibt doch noch Gerechtigkeit: Als Außenminister muss Boris #Johnson die Suppe (mit) auslöffeln, die er seinem Land eingebrockt hat... July 13, 2016 Sweden’s former prime minister Carl Bildt was among those despairing over the decision.
(15) Hair carefully mussed, suit slightly awry, he deadpanned the line he knew would guarantee his place on the front pages and in the comment columns for days and weeks to come.
(16) Jacob Varghese from Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Luke Hilakari from the Victorian Trades Hall, Waleed Muss from the board of directors of Rise and Brigid Arthur from the Brigidine Asylum seeker project are also board members.
Tousle
Definition:
(v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inner tension this engendered – coupled with others, not least his as-yet unconfessed homosexuality – can be glimpsed in photographs of the intense, thin-lipped slender young man with piercing blue eyes and tousled hair.
(2) Andy McNab, in pink trousers, would tab past the tousled figure of Tom Stoppard, slipping in the back-door in his ankle-length woollen scarf.
(3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) A small tousled boy, wearing dungarees, white-skinned, picked it up.
(6) It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago.
(7) Tousle the hair a little, some self-deprecation and a bit of a plug for the BBC TV documentary on Monday to remind the Tory backbenchers that if the ball ever popped out of the scrum, he would be on hand to take it, almost accidentally, over the line.
(8) The US is my country now.” On his lap he held that son, a happy child with a tousle of black hair who had been born in a refugee camp 10 months previously.
(9) There is food for the families and kids, he said, tousling a young boy’s hair affectionately, but “not much for the rest of us”.
(10) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(11) From the dogfight inside the ruined hulk of a crash-landed Imperial Star Destroyer to the not-quite-a-surprise appearance in the last moments of the trailer of Han and Chewie, there’s not an uncomfortably racialized alien or a tousle-headed child in sight.
(12) At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single, enduring image – the image of a man on a boat; white mane tousled; smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."
(13) At this point his eight-year-old son, a young lad with shockingly blond hair arranged in the tousled fashion which gave him that just-out-of-bed look, emerged from behind his legs.
(14) Tonight’s dull 0-0 draw, your foolish MBM hack having recklessly tempted, teased and tousled the hair of fate, kicks off at: 5.30pm.
(15) We still read every day about scandalous misuses of public funds.” Silvio Berlusconi’s decline is also helping the tousle-haired comedian, says D’Alimonte.
(16) As Andrew O’Hagan put it in the London Review of Books : “The expensive silk tie on the cover tells you everything about the acquisitive vibe behind the whole thing, the appeal for mothers who wouldn’t mind a slightly naughty son-in-law if he also had tousled hair, an Audi R8 Spyder, several apartments and a general handiness with the black Amex … many comforts [are] offered for a life of mild depravity: people in these novels don’t wear underpants they wear Calvin Kleins; they don’t drink wine they have Pinot Grigio; nobody wears sunglasses they wear Ray-Bans … It’s not that having these things is at all unusual, but the specificity implies a desire much larger here than any desire people might have for kinky sex.
(17) The work shows Rembrandt in his early 20s, hair tousled, head thrown back, roaring with laughter.
(18) She's wearing a loose pale grey T-shirt and her dirty blonde hair is tousled over her shoulders.
(19) The children's bedrooms feature retro movie posters and plain mauve bedspreads, and the grinning, tousle-haired kids are pictured playing with bespoke wooden train sets that their fathers have carved out of an oak branch taken from the back garden.
(20) After leaving the Foreign Office in search of new adventures, Stewart, who looks (deceptively) winsome and vulnerable with his tousled hair and wiry build, walked 6,000 miles across Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, mostly alone (his winter walk across Afghanistan was the subject of his first book).