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muff
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /m?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Etymology 1
Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).
Noun
muff (plural muffs)
- (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
- 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.
- (vulgar, slang) Female pubic hair; female genitals.
- (by extension) A woman or girl.
- (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
Synonyms
- whiskers, beard, muff and beard (bird feathers):
Related terms
- muff-diver
- muff-diving
- muff pistol
Translations
References
- “muff, n.1.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
- “muff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhonaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).
Noun
muff (plural muffs)
- (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. [from 19th c.]
- 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower
- 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?
- 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower
- (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. [from 19th c.]
- A bird, the whitethroat.
Translations
Verb
muff (third-person singular simple present muffs, present participle muffing, simple past and past participle muffed)
- (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. [from 19th c.]
- To mishandle; to bungle. [from 1920s]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 69:
- Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 69:
Translations
Etymology 3
Shortening.
Noun
muff (plural muffs)
- (slang) A muffin.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m?f]
Verb
muff
- singular imperative of muffen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of muffen
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Muff, from Dutch mof ("muff"), from Middle Dutch moffel, from Middle French moufle ("mitten"), from Medieval Latin muffula ("fur-lined glove"), of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?muf?]
- Hyphenation: muff
- Rhymes: -uf?
Noun
muff (plural muffok)
- (archaic) muff (handwarmer)
- (slang) vagina
- (slang) woman
Declension
Further reading
- muff in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
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moff
English
Noun
moff (uncountable)
- (archaic) A thin silk material made in the Caucasus.
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