mussy

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From muss +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

mussy (comparative mussier, superlative mussiest)

  1. Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mussy (countable and uncountable, plural mussies)

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