Antonyms for messing around
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : mes |
| Phonetic Transcription : mɛs |
Definition of messing around
Origin :- c.1300, "food for one meal, pottage," from Old French mes "portion of food, course at dinner," from Late Latin missus "course at dinner," literally "a placing, a putting (on a table, etc.)," from past participle of mittere "to put, place," in classical Latin "to send, let go" (see mission).
- Meaning "communal eating place" (especially a military one) is first attested 1530s, from earlier sense of "company of persons eating together" (early 15c.), originally a group of four. Sense of "mixed food," especially for animals, (1738) led to contemptuous use for "jumble, mixed mass" (1828) and figurative sense of "state of confusion" (1834), as well as "condition of untidiness" (1851). General use for "a quantity" of anything is attested by 1830. Meaning "excrement" (of animals) is from 1903.
- verb fiddle; goof off
- He does not care for our way of living, I know, and he does like messing around.
- Extract from : « Eve to the Rescue » by Ethel Hueston
- I'd hate to see you messing around with bags like that myself, and if I hadn't been drunk I wouldn't have let you.
- Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
- My last letter from Mom said Billy was messing around with a portable atom reactor and she was afraid he might blow himself up.
- Extract from : « Stand by for Mars! » by Carey Rockwell
- "Whoever was messing around on the power deck just before you blasted off for the trials must have dumped it in," said Tom.
- Extract from : « Treachery in Outer Space » by Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman
- Personally, I don't care much about messing around outside after dark.
- Extract from : « The Adventure Club Afloat » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- I think I saw him once messing around with some cartons or something, back over the east side of the building.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- An American cove at Leipzig taking four years' penal for messing around after plans of the Heligoland fortifications.
- Extract from : « If Winter Comes » by A.S.M. Hutchinson
Synonyms for messing around
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