muff

See also: Muff

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌf/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ʌf

Etymology 1

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

1. (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.

2. (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
3. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
4. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
5. 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

a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手籠／手笼 (shǒulóng), 手笼 (shǒulóng)

• Czech: rukávník (cs) m
• Dutch: mof (nl) f
• Finnish: puuhka (fi), muhvi (fi)
• French: manchon (fr) m
• German: Muff (de) m
• Hungarian: muff (hu)
• Icelandic: múffa f
• Italian: manicotto (it) m
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• Japanese: マフ (ja) (mafu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muffe m or f

  Nynorsk: muffe f

• Polish: mufka (pl) f
• Portuguese: regalo (pt) m
• Russian: му́фта (ru) f (múfta)
• Serbo-Croatian: rukovnica f
• Spanish: manguito m

pubic hair

• Finnish: pehko (slang), tussu (slang)
• French: toison (fr) f, touffe (fr) f (slang)
• Italian: pelo pubico, fica (it) f
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• Portuguese: pentelho (pt) m
• Russian: мохнатка (ru) f (moxnatka) (slang)

a blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 套筒 (zh) (tàotǒng)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: муфта (ru) (mufta)

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)

1. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. [from 19th c.]
   • Thackeray

     a muff of a curate

2. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. [from 19th c.]
3. A bird, the whitethroat.

Translations

an error

• Italian: fallo (it) m
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• Swedish: tabbe (sv) c

Verb

muff (third-person singular simple present muffs, present participle muffing, simple past and past participle muffed)

1. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. [from 19th c.]
2. 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.

Translations

in American football, to drop or mishandle the ball

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

by extension, to mishandle any situation

• Finnish: tunaroida, möhliä (fi), töpätä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

1. (slang) A muffin.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʊf]

Verb

muff

1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of muffen.
2. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of muffen.

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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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmufː]
• Hyphenation: muff

Noun

muff (plural muffok)

1. (archaic) muff (handwarmer)
2. (slang) vagina
3. (slang) woman

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	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
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