different between muss vs musts

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• muß (superseded)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

English

Noun

musts

1. plural of must

Anagrams

• smuts, stums

Swedish

Noun

musts

1. indefinite genitive singular of must

Anagrams

• smuts