Definition of "mussy" [muss•y]

• Having been mussed, messy, rumpled. (adjective)

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• "If snowballing the target is too "mussy," a large holly wreath with a cluster of sleighbells in the center may be suspended from the ceiling with red and green streamers."
• "His necktie was tied kind of mussy and careless, like Old Man"
• "It was a wood fire, in an open chimney, for Mrs. Armadale would sit by no other; and I call the place the kitchen, for really a large portion of the work of the kitchen was done there; however, there was a stove in an adjoining room, which accommodated most of the boilers and kettles in use, while the room itself was used for all the "mussy" work."