to messing
3
3.5
- verb
- /ˈmɛsɪŋ/
- Informal
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jugar
- And why are you messing with some other stuff?
Just be just just have some almost fun messing with your beliefs.
- Just be just just have some almost fun messing with your beliefs.
- Whether we want to go messing around with the genome is another matter.
- So now when you look, what you find is that they're messing around.
- Is it a good card messing around, man?
Examples
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AM I MESSING UP YOUR CONCENTRATION, ME BEING HERE LIKE THIS?
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YOU'RE STILL MESSING AROUND WITH ELECTRONICS AND MICROCHIPS, RIGHT?
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And we thought, well, if you think we're messing about, we're not.
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You start messing with them and you will push them out.
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And I'm messing with that luck, right?
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People need our help, get busy, stop messing around, you know, kind of messaging.
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Let me apologize right away to Jared for messing up that start.
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Kittens back there messing with the Garland like it's her job.
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I don't need wild donkeys messing with my crops.
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The children are just messing around in the park instead of doing their homework.
Synonyms
111
4.1
To spend time doing playful or unplanned activities
88
2.1
Act in a foolish or playful way without taking things seriously
75
9.9
To waste time or act carelessly
46
3.6
Act in a silly, playful way instead of working
42
4.6
To act silly and playful without doing anything serious
19
5.1
Act in a playful, joking way without being serious
6
7.2
To waste time by doing small unimportant things
6
8.0
Act in a careless way by ignoring rules and other people's feelings
4
7.3
Waste time by acting silly instead of working
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9.9
To waste time doing unimportant or silly things instead of doing something important
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9.9
Act in a foolish, annoying way instead of being serious
To act in a silly, playful way instead of being serious
To waste time by doing silly, unimportant things
Act in a silly, aimless way and waste time
To talk or act in a silly, unimportant way
To behave rudely or foolishly in a way that annoys others
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Messing comes from the everyday word mess, which once meant a shared meal and later came to mean 'a dirty or untidy state', and you can see the same root in messy. So, to be messing is to make a mess or 'play around' and not take something seriously.