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Muff
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A village in County Donegal, Ireland.
- 3 A diminutive of the female given name Myfanwy.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1 A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. historical
"Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff."
- 2 A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. colloquial
"Can you fancy that such an old creature (an old muff, as you call him, you wicked, satirical man!) could ever make en impression on my heart?"
- 3 A muffin. slang
"Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs."
- 4 (sports) dropping the ball wordnet
- 5 The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it. slang, vulgar
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- 6 An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. slang
- 7 a warm tubular covering for the hands wordnet
- 8 A woman or girl. slang, vulgar
- 9 A bird, the whitethroat.
- 10 A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- 11 The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- 12 A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- 1 To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
- 2 make a mess of, destroy or ruin wordnet
- 3 To mishandle; to bungle.
"But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth."
- 4 fail to catch, as of a ball wordnet
Etymology
Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).
Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).
Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).
Shortening.
* As an English surname, variant of Mowe, itself from Middle English maugh (“son-in-law”), from Old Norse mágr. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun mupf (“drooping mouth”), which is probably ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding mouth, pout”).
* As an English surname, variant of Mowe, itself from Middle English maugh (“son-in-law”), from Old Norse mágr. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun mupf (“drooping mouth”), which is probably ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding mouth, pout”).
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