different between muffler vs neckcloth
muffler
English
Etymology
muffle +? -er
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?fl?/
Noun
muffler (plural mufflers)
- (US, automotive) Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
- A type of scarf.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8
- The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8
Synonyms
- (part of exhaust pipe): silencer
Descendants
- Spanish: mofle
Translations
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neckcloth
English
Alternative forms
- neck-cloth
Etymology
neck +? cloth
Noun
neckcloth (plural neckcloths)
- (historical) An ornamental cravat, usually white.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 144,[1]
- […] I did remember I had among the Seamens Cloaths which were sav’d out of the Ship, some Neckcloaths of Callicoe or Muslin; and with some Pieces of these I made three small Sieves, but proper enough for the Work […]
- 1720, John Gay, “Tuesday; or, the Ditty” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: H. Lintot, R. Tonson & S. Draper, 1745, Volume I, p. 85,[2]
- Will she thy linen wash or hosen darn,
- And knit thee gloves made of her own-spun yarn?
- Will she with huswife’s hand provide thy meat,
- And ev’ry Sunday morn thy neckcloth plait?
- Which o’er thy kersey doublet spreading wide,
- In service time drew Cic’ly’s eyes aside.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume I, Chapter 9, p. 115,[3]
- He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neck-cloth.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 15, p. 157,[4]
- He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trowsers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckcloth looked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (I call to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part I, Chapter 7,[5]
- It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neck-cloth and half-strangling him that we made him realise that his struggles were of no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 144,[1]
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