To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
Origin
From Middle English muflen, aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler ("to wrap up, muffle"), from moufle, from Medieval Latin muffula, of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 ), from Frankish *muffël from *mauwu (from Proto-Germanic *mawwō) + *vël (from Proto-Germanic *fellą. Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell from *mol (akin to Old High German molawēn, Middle High German molwic, English mulch) + *fell.
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