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Messing

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
  2. 2
    A surname from German.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of mess form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Old English personal name *Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.

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