muff
See also: Muff
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
- Template:RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt
- 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.
- Template:RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt
- (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
- (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
Translations
a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
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pubic hair
a blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet
a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe
Etymology 2
Origin unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps 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.]
- Thackeray
- a muff of a curate
- Thackeray
- (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
in American football, to drop or mishandle the ball
by extension, to mishandle any situation
Etymology 3
Shortening.
Noun
muff (plural muffs)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
muff
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of muffen.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of muffen.
Hungarian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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
Noun
muff (plural muffok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | muff | muffok |
accusative | muffot | muffokat |
dative | muffnak | muffoknak |
instrumental | muffal | muffokkal |
causal-final | muffért | muffokért |
translative | muffá | muffokká |
terminative | muffig | muffokig |
essive-formal | muffként | muffokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | muffban | muffokban |
superessive | muffon | muffokon |
adessive | muffnál | muffoknál |
illative | muffba | muffokba |
sublative | muffra | muffokra |
allative | muffhoz | muffokhoz |
elative | muffból | muffokból |
delative | muffról | muffokról |
ablative | mufftól | muffoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
muffé | muffoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
mufféi | muffokéi |
Possessive forms of muff | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | muffom | muffjaim |
2nd person sing. | muffod | muffjaid |
3rd person sing. | muffja | muffjai |
1st person plural | muffunk | muffjaink |
2nd person plural | muffotok | muffjaitok |
3rd person plural | muffjuk | muffjaik |
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