MUSS

noun a term of endearment.

2. muss ·vt to disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.

3. muss ·noun a state of confusion or disorder;

— prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.

4. muss ·noun a scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.