different between missy vs muzzle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s.i/
• Rhymes: -?si

Etymology 1

From miss +? -y.

Noun

missy (plural missies)

1. A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically used jokingly or rebukingly.

2. (Singapore, Malaysia) A female nurse.

Descendants

• ? Maori: Mihi

Translations

Adjective

missy (not comparable)

1. Girlish; effeminate; sentimental.
2. Of, or pertaining to, female clothing or clothing sizes.

Etymology 2

Noun

missy (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) Alternative form of misy

Anagrams

• mysis

English

Etymology

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin m?sus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin m?g?re (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Noun

muzzle (plural muzzles)

1. The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

   Synonym: snout
2. (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
4. A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
6. (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

   Coordinate term: breech

7. (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

   Synonym: bridle

8. (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

muzzle (third-person singular simple present muzzles, present participle muzzling, simple past and past participle muzzled)

1. (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

   • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

   • Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

5. (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

Derived terms

• muzzler

Translations

References

• muzzle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “muzzle”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000