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gussy

English

Verb

gussy (third-person singular simple present gussies, present participle gussying, simple past and past participle gussied)

  1. (chiefly US) to dress up or decorate in a showy way

Derived terms

  • gussy up

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mussy

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?si

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. Pronunciation 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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