ballup balls-up cockup mess-up a | something badly botched or muddled |
mess mess hall | a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax |
mess jacket monkey jacket shell jacket | waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back, worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners |
mess kit | kit containing a metal dish and eating utensils, used by soldiers and campers |
officer's mess | a mess for the exclusive use of officers |
mess | a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel |
mess | soft semiliquid food, a mess of porridge |
mess of pottage | anything of trivial value, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage |
b batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad v b a | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a batch of letters, a deal of trouble, a lot of money, he made a mint on the stock market, see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos, it must have cost plenty, a slew of journalists, a wad of money |
fix hole jam mess muddle pickle kettle of fish | informal terms for a difficult situation, he got into a terrible fix, he made a muddle of his marriage |
mess messiness muss mussiness | a state of confusion and disorderliness, the house was a mess, she smoothed the mussiness of the bed |
mess mess up | make a mess of or create disorder in, He messed up his room |
mess | eat in a mess hall |
ruffle ruffle up rumple mess up | disturb the smoothness of, ruffle the surface of the water |
putter mess around potter tinker monkey monkey around muck about muck around | do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly, The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house |
botch bodge bumble fumble botch up muff blow flub screw up ball up spoil muck up bungle fluff bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up bobble mishandle louse up foul up mess up fuck up eddbbba | make a mess of, destroy or ruin, I botched the dinner and we had to eat out, the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement |
d loiter lounge footle lollygag loaf lallygag hang around mess about tarry linger lurk mill about mill around a | be about, The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square, Who is this man that is hanging around the department? |