different between muses vs muss

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: myo?oz?z, IPA^(key): /mju?z?z/

Noun

muses

1. plural of muse

Verb

muses

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muse

Asturian

Noun

muses

1. plural of musa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?mu.z?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mu.zes/

Noun

muses

1. plural of musa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myz/
• Homophones: muse, musent

Verb

muses

1. second-person singular present indicative of muser
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of muser

Anagrams

• musse, sûmes

Interlingua

Noun

muses

1. plural of mus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?muses/, [?mu.ses]

Verb

muses

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of musirse.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Related to mess (“disorder”).

Verb

muss (third-person singular simple present musses, present participle mussing, simple past and past participle mussed)

1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Noun

muss (plural musses)

1. A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder)
2. (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

     Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, and cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am Antony yet.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare Middle English mus (“a mouse”). See mouse.

Noun

muss (plural musses)

1. (obsolete) A term of endearment.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Translations

References

• muss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Sums, sums

German

Alternative forms

• muß (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

muss

1. first/third-person singular present of müssen

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus/

Verb

muss

1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative of mussen