单词 | mussy |
释义 | mussyn. regional. = mercy n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > mercy milceeOE mildheartnesseOE oreOE mildheartlaikc1175 mercya1225 misericordc1230 pitya1250 gracec1300 mildheadc1300 milcefulnessa1333 pietya1350 tree of mercyc1375 miserationa1382 mildc1390 piteousnessa1393 miltha1400 milthnessa1400 blithec1400 mercifulnessc1429 misericordy1479 mildfulness1489 clemence1490 clemency1553 pardon1555 pitifulness1555 milk of human kindnessa1616 mussy1823 mild-heartedness1849 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 243 Mussy on us. 1881 J. C. Harris Nights with Uncle Remus (1883) xii. 67 For mussy sake gin 'im a walkin'-cane. 1903 P. L. Dunbar In Old Plantation Days 63 Lawd a' mussy, 'pon my soul, an' you one of de faifful of de flock! 1909 Dial. Notes 3 344 Lawsy mussy (pon my soul). 1935 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 120/2 Hab mussy, Jedus!.. When a bull-bat go lak dat he diggin' a grabe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mussyadj. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Untidy, rumpled; (of hair) tousled, ruffled. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] untidya1375 unred1528 sluttish?1529 untrimmed?1529 untrick1570 untrim1570 shevelled1613 hirsute1621 incompta1628 messy1627 unneat1648 tawdry1672 slattern1680 bunting1759 untrig1821 sloggering1825 slummocking1825 scrambling1826 poucey1829 anyhow1831 mullocky1839 ragtail1846 mussy1859 slubbery1880 unshipshape1883 mussed1888 slummocky1898 ruggy1929 idle1956 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Mussy. 1. Disarranged, disordered, tumbled;..2...Smeary, dirty, nasty. 1873 W. S. Mayo Never Again viii. 101 A warm but somewhat mussy victorine of cat-skin that encircled her neck. 1896 Peterson Mag. 6 330/2 A trunkful of limp, mussy, bedraggled gowns. 1904 N.Y. Times 9 May 4 A washing is all the most mussy of them need to render them things of beauty. 1925 D. H. Lawrence Death of Porcupine 112 One can't help feeling Natasha is rather mussy and unfresh, married to that Pierre. 1973 E. Taylor Serpent under It (1974) x. 148 [His] mussy hair and lop-sided spectacles. 1993 L. Darcy Private Arrangement viii. 139 Well, your hair could use a brush, perhaps, although that mussy halo is rather delightful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823adj.1859 |
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