mess
noun · verb · adjectiveA2- Tiếng Việt:
- bừa bộn
bừa bộn. Họ từ MESS — danh từ: mess; động từ: mess up; tính từ: messy.
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya?
He made a mess of it.
My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
Đồng nghĩa: disorder, bedlam, car crash, chaos, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, dog's breakfast, dog's dinner, free-for-all, fuddle, hash, hot mess, imbroglio, mash, maze, mess, misorder, mommick, muddle, mullock, muss, shambles, shemozzle, snarl, tangle, topsy-turviness, upfuckery
- 2.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)a large quantity or number
My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.
- 3.
(countable, euphemistic, uncountable)excrement.
There was dog mess all along the street.
Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.
- 4.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
- 5.
(obsolete)Mass; a church service.
- 6.
(archaic)A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
c. 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to one in prison for the profession of the Gospel a mess of pottage
- 7.
(collective)A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
the wardroom mess
- 8.
A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- 9.
(India)a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- 10.
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- 11.
(US)The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- 12.
(collective)A group of iguanas.
Đồng nghĩa: slaughter
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive, often with "up") To make untidy or dirty.
- 2.
(often, transitive)(transitive, often with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
Charles Dickens, quoted in: 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens Yet I was not sorry that the creature found the loophole for escape. The officers had taken him illegally without any warrant; and really they messed it all through, quite facetiously.
- 3.
(intransitive)To interfere.
This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.
- 4.
(intransitive)To take meals with a mess.
- 5.
(intransitive)To belong to a mess.
- 6.
(intransitive)To eat (with others).
Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...
I mess with the wardroom officers.
- 7.
(transitive)To supply with a mess.
Cụm từ thường dùng
mess with
giới từ đi kèm
make a mess
cụm thông dụng
messy room
cụm thông dụng
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Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (mash), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also mes.