verb
- making messy or disheveled; disturbing the neat arrangement of something
Usage: present participle of ‘muss’
Examples
- She kept mussing her hair nervously during the interview.
- The wind was mussing up all the papers on his desk.
- Stop mussing the bedsheets after I just made the bed.
- The toddler was mussing his clothes while playing in the sandbox.
- He apologized for mussing her carefully styled hair.
- The cat kept mussing the neat pile of magazines.