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overdrive
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English overdriven, from Old English oferdr?fan, equivalent to over- +? drive. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurdrieuwe (“to overdo, overstate”), Dutch overdrijven (“to exaggerate”), German Low German overdrieven, överdrieven (“to overdo, exaggerate”), German übertreiben (“to overdo, exaggerate”), Norwegian overdrive (“to exaggerate”).
Verb
overdrive (third-person singular simple present overdrives, present participle overdriving, simple past overdrove, past participle overdriven)
- (transitive) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
Etymology 2
From over- +? drive From the gear over "D" (drive) in an automatic transmission vehicle.
Noun
overdrive (countable and uncountable, plural overdrives)
- (dated) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.
- A state of heightened activity.
Synonyms
(abbreviation)
- OD
- O/D
- O.D. / O. D.
Coordinate terms
- 4th gear (in an automatic transmission vehicle)
- 5th gear (in a manual transmission vehicle)
Derived terms
- (abbreviation) O. D. / O.D. / O/D / OD
Translations
See also
- hyperdrive
- understeer
- oversteer
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
over- +? drive; after German übertreiben
Verb
overdrive (imperative overdriv, present tense overdriver, simple past overdrev or overdreiv, past participle overdrevet, present participle overdrivende)
- to exaggerate (overstate, to describe more than is fact)
Derived terms
- overdrivelse
Related terms
- overdreven
References
- “overdrive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
overdrive
- neuter of overdriven
Verb
overdrive (present tense overdriv, past tense overdreiv, supine overdrive, past participle overdriven, present participle overdrivande, imperative overdriv)
- Alternative form of overdriva
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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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