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!