Word: mess Word origin: Middle English: from Old French mes ‘portion of food’, from late Latin missum ‘something put on the table’, past participle of mittere ‘send, put’. The original sense was ‘a serving of (semi-liquid) food’, later ‘liquid food for an animal’; this gave rise (early 19th century) to the senses ‘unappetizing concoction’ and ‘predicament’, on which sense 1 is based. In late Middle English the term also denoted any of the small groups into which the company at a banquet was divided (who were served from the same dishes); hence, ‘a group who regularly eat together’ (recorded in military use from the mid 16th century). Phonetic: mɛs Listen:
make untidy or dirty. Example: she scratched her head, messing her hair still further
have one's meals with a particular person, especially as a member of an armed forces' mess. Example: I messed at first with Harry, who became a lifelong friend
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