muff

Meanings

Noun

  • A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
  • Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
  • A woman or girl.
  • 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.
  • A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
  • An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
  • A bird, the whitethroat.
  • A muffin.

Verb

  • To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
  • To mishandle; to bungle.

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Origin

  • Probably from Dutch mof.
  • Origin unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhonaps related to Dutch muffen and German muffen.
  • Shortening.

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