Muff

//mʌf//

Synonyms for "muff" (209 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (42)

botch bungle fumble bad job be all thumbs bevue blow blunder blunder away blunder into blunder on blunder upon bobble boggle bollix bonehead play boner boo boo boo-boo bumble

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butcher

Noun(9 words)

axe wound beard bearded clam beaver berk bonne bouche box bun bush

Verb(12 words)

ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle

Strong matches (63)

butterfingers clumsy clumsy performance commit a gaffe dub duffer error etourderie faux pas flounder flub fluff foozle foozler foul foul-up fumble-fist gantlet gaucherie gauntlet

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glove goof goof up goofball goofer hash

Noun(32 words)

buttonhole cavern chocha clunge coin slot cooch coochie cookie cooter cooze crack crevice cunny cunt dauber doughnut downtown fanny female genitalia fish lips

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foo-foo front bottom front bum front hole fumble gap gash ginch girl girlpussy grand canyon hair pie

Verb(5 words)

flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble

Related words (104)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

17 entries

bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo botch bungle fail flub foul-up fuckup go wrong hand wear handwear miscarry neglect

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Synonyms

5 entries

botch bungle fumble mishandle whiskers

causes desire

1 entries

dive

derived

8 entries

earmuff furry muff marry-muff muff diver muff pistol muff up muff-diving twiddle muff

has context

5 entries

glassblowing historical slang sport sports

is a

1 entries

handwear

manner of

1 entries

fail

related to

15 entries

bungle cloth cylinder error fool fur mistake muff diver muff diving muff pistol muffin pipe pubic hair vulva whitethroat

Translations

45 translations across 24 languages.

Belarusian

2 entries

му́фта noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
мутэ́рка noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Bulgarian

4 entries

маншон noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
муфа noun (a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe)
пропуск noun (an error)
изпускам verb (in American football, to drop or mishandle the ball)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

套筒 noun (a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe)
手籠 /手笼 noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Czech

1 entries

rukávník noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Dutch

1 entries

mof noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Finnish

4 entries

muhvi noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
pehko noun (pubic hair)
puuhka noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
tussu noun (pubic hair)

French

3 entries

manchon noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
toison noun (pubic hair)
touffe noun (pubic hair)

German

1 entries

Muff noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Hungarian

1 entries

muff noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Icelandic

1 entries

múffa noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Ingrian

1 entries

mufta noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Irish

1 entries

Magh name (village in County Donegal, Ireland)

Italian

4 entries

fallo noun (an error)
fica noun (pubic hair)
manicotto noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
pelo pubico noun (pubic hair)

Japanese

1 entries

マフ noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Korean

2 entries

머프 noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
토시 noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

muffe noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

muffe noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Polish

1 entries

mufka noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Portuguese

2 entries

pentelho noun (pubic hair)
regalo noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Russian

3 entries

мохнатка noun (pubic hair)
му́фта noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)
муфта noun (a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

rukovnica noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Spanish

1 entries

manguito noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Swedish

1 entries

tabbe noun (an error)

Ukrainian

1 entries

му́фта noun (a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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?

Source: wiktionary

[…]being good is so much like being a muff, generally.

Source: wiktionary

But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth.

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