| 释义 |
mess1 /mes/ noun- A mixture disagreeable to the sight or taste
- A medley
- (a person in a state of) disorder or confusion
- Embarrassment
- A bungle
- A dish of food, a course or meal (archaic)
- A set of usually four people served together at a banquet (archaic)
- A set of four (Shakespeare)
- A number of people who take their meals together, esp in the armed forces
- A place where such a group take their meals together
- A cow's yield at one milking (dialect)
- A quantity of anything, esp of a specified food (archaic or N Am dialect)
- A take or haul of fish (US)
- A dish of soft, pulpy or sloppy food
- Liquid, pulpy or smeary dirt
- Excrement, esp of an animal (informal)
transitive verb- To make a mess of (usu with up)
- To subject to a violent physical attack (with up) (US informal)
- To muddle
- To make dirty or messy
- To supply with a meal or food (military)
intransitive verb- To make a mess
- To play or trifle (with with)
- To meddle, involve oneself (with with or in) (informal; esp US)
- To tangle or come into conflict (with with) (informal; esp US)
- To eat a meal, to dine (archaic)
- To eat at a common table
- To belong to a mess
ORIGIN: OFr mes (Fr mets) a dish, from L mittere, missum to send, in LL to place messˈily adverb messˈiness noun messˈy adjective (messˈier; messˈiest) - Confused, untidy (also figurative)
- Involving, or causing, dirt or mess
- Bungling
mess deck noun (nautical) - The crew's living-quarters on board ship
- The crew's dining-hall (US)
mess jacket noun A waist-length jacket worn by officers at a formal mess dinner mess kit noun - Formal evening wear for officers
- A soldier's eating utensils (also mess gear)
messˈmate noun - A member of the same mess
- A commensal
messˈ-room noun messˈ-tin noun A soldier's utensil serving as plate, cup and cooking vessel messˈ-up noun A mess, muddle, bungle or confusion mess about or around (informal) - To potter about
- To behave in a foolish or annoying way
- To meddle or interfere (with with)
- To treat badly or inconsiderately
- To upset, put into a state of disorder or confusion
- To have an adulterous or otherwise illicit sexual relationship (often with with)
mess of pottage A material advantage accepted in exchange for something of higher worth, as by Esau (Bible, Genesis 25.29 ff) mess or mell (Scot) To associate, have to do mess up (informal; esp US) - To make a mess of things, fail in some endeavour
- To confuse psychologically (informal, esp US)
no messing (slang) Without a shadow of doubt mess2 /mes/ noun an obsolete form of mass2 Mass, Mas /mäs/, Mess or Mes /mes/ (obsolete) noun shortened form of master Masˈ-John, Massˈ-John, Mesˈ-John or Messˈ-John noun (obsolete) A contemptuous name for a Scottish parish minister |