messing

n. interference, meddling; act of making dirty or untidy; eating in company; wasting time (Slang); involvement in an immoral or unethical situation (Slang)

v. interfere with, meddle; make dirty or untidy; bungle; make an error; eat in company; beat someone up (Slang); waste time (Slang); be involved in an immoral or unethical situation (Slang)

Noun
1. a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
(synonym) messiness, muss, mussiness
(hypernym) disorderliness, disorder
(derivation) mess up
2. informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
(synonym) fix, hole, jam, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
(hypernym) difficulty
(hyponym) dog's breakfast, dog's dinner
3. soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
(hypernym) nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals
4. a meal eaten by service personnel
(hypernym) meal, repast
5. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
(synonym) mess hall
(hypernym) dining room, dining-room
(hyponym) officer's mess
(part-meronym) training table
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
6. (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
(synonym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
(hyponym) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
Verb
1. eat in a mess hall
(hypernym) eat
(derivation) mess hall
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
2. make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
(synonym) mess up
(hypernym) disorder, disarray
(derivation) messiness, muss, mussiness

n. brass, type of metal alloy which consists of zinc and copper

adj. brazen, metallic

n. brass, composition metal

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Mess