Mess
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Mass; church service. 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 a beast at one time. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table. A set of four; — from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. The milk given by a cow at one milking. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder. A large quantity or number.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To take meals with a mess. To belong to a mess. To eat (with others). To supply with a mess.
Example sentence: Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Muddle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
Example sentence: A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.