A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. / (colloquial) A large quantity or number. / (euphemistic) Excrement.

To make soiled by defecating. / To make soiled by ejaculating. / (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. / (intransitive) To interfere.

(obsolete) Mass; a church service. / (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.

(intransitive) To take meals with a mess. / (intransitive) To belong to a mess. / (intransitive) To eat (with others). / (transitive) To supply with a mess.

simple past tense and past participle of mess

(obsolete) To eat with. / (slang) To interfere with. / (slang) To diss; to put down. / (slang) To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner.

A surname from German.

simple past tense and past participle of mess with

A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).

A surname from German.