mess

Meaning

Noun

1. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
2. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
3. Excrement.
4. A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

Verb

1. To make untidy or dirty.
2. To make untidy or dirty.
3. To throw into disorder or to ruin.
4. To interfere.

Verb

1. To take meals with a mess.
2. To belong to a mess.
3. To eat (with others).
4. To supply with a mess.

Concepts

mess

disorder

muddle

confusion

chaos

jumble

disarray

muss

tangle

junk

turmoil

gruel

mush

shambles

clutter

mix-up

lot

raft

messiness

dishevel

farrago

filth

bedlam

disorganization

mess up

mess hall

batch

deal

good deal

great deal

hatful

heap

mass

mountain

pile

pot

sight

stack

wad

fix

pickle

mussiness

muck

mix up

porridge

puree

gallimaufry

disrupt

pother

havoc

flock

mickle

mint

muckle

passel

peck

plenty

quite a little

slew

spate

tidy sum

hole

jam

kettle of fish

foul up

disarrange

thicket

wardroom

untidiness

meal

repast

meals

botch

shemozzle

commotion

confuse

entanglement

dirtiness

food

jostle

ruffle up

tousle

purée de pommes de terre mashed potatoes

kerfuffle

razzmatazz

topsyturvydom

hotch-potch

aggravate

cause disorder

make worse

huddle

mix

dining together

nothing

spoiled

spoilt

wreck

crisis

dilemma

problem

mixture

obfuscate

squash

nonsense

dining room

dining-hall

balls-up

cento

dust

fuck-up

ball up

balls up

bitch up

botch up

bugger up

cock up

goof up

hash

putter

concoction

medley

muck-up

Sturm und Drang

ball

involvement

slatternliness

sloppiness

slovenliness

topsyturvidom

topsyturviness

unkemptness

ataxia

ataxy

irregularity

mischief

mischievousness

naughtiness

prank

shenanigan

wildness

bewilderment

hotpot

eat together

common meal

chow

course

make a mess

difficult situation

botched job

mayhem

disarrangement

racket

board

square meal

table

break bread

a lot

far

greatly

hard

heaps

lots

mile

molto

much

plentiful

right smart

way

wide

widely

babel

hodgepodge

tumult

agitate

bedevil

clutter up

dinge

disorganise

embroil

entangle

involve

litter

louse up

mat

muck up

mud

puddle

roil

shake up

touch

dog’s breakfast

dog’s dinner

hassle

mess-up

cockup

disorderliness

miscellany

mishmash

odds and ends

screw

imbroglio

pell-mell

waste

disturbance

affair

grime

sludge

hot water

kneading-trough

scrape

tight corner

trouble

row

jessom

Donald

French dressing

Harry

butter

buttermilk

chuff

come

cream

cum

cumin

curd

duck butter

face cream

fetch

flame

flip

frame

freak

frig

frock

fuck

futz

goo

goose grease

gravy

honey

jelly

jism

jizz

juice

lather

load

malt

mayonnaise

melted butter

mettle

milk

oats

ointment

paste

pineapple

protein

pudding

quince

rice pudding

roe

root

scum

seed

slime

smeg

spoof

spooge

spuff

spunk

syrup

tallow

tapioca

toothpaste

water of life

whipped cream

yogurt

hot fish yoghurt

whore's milk

nut custard

Zinzanbrook

joombye

tatty water

French-fried ice-cream

tail-juice

baby batter

Aphrodite's Evostick

spaff

population paste

gism

father-stuff

Valentines Day porridge

pugwash

love butter

banana yoghurt

Cupid's toothpaste

liquid hairdressing

manfat

gak

man cake batter

Gloy

man-fat

tadpole yoghurt

prick-juice

cumshot

spunck

doll spit

love nectar

man oil

white blow

baby gravy

gonad glue

man mayonnaise

cock porridge

herbalz

baby juice

hocky

white wee-wee

splooge

spla water

manmuck

hot juice

gentleman's relish

cock snot

hot milk

jizzle

little tadpoles

slush

aliment

bellytimber

comestible

eatables

eating

foodstuff

khana

nourishment

nutrient

nutriment

nutrition

pabulation

pabulum

scrawn

tabemono

vittle

dining hall

cook

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛs/

Etymology

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals".