Definition of Mess

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Definition of Mess

Mess

Mass; church service.

A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

The milk given by a cow at one milking.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

To supply with a mess.

To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.

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Mess Quotations

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
Dave Barry

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
Mike Tyson

Clean up your own mess.
Robert Fulghum

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer

Mess Translations

mess in Dutch is moes, brij, pap
mess in Finnish is puuro
mess in Italian is viluppo
mess in Spanish is lio, enredo

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