Mrs. Reddon was a little pale New Englander, apparently as fragile as a china cup, and in her arms was a mussy and peevish child.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
I've known all my life men are mussy, but that room of yours is the limit, Mr. Cole, all littered up with paper so a body don't dare touch anything.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
It's awful mussy-looking, to my way of thinking.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough