muffler

English

muffler (sense 1.1)

mufflers (sense 1.2)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English muffle

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English muffler

From muffle + -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌflɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌflə(ɹ)

Noun

muffler (plural mufflers)

1. Something or someone that muffles.
   2. (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.

      Synonym: silencer

      Holonym: exhaust system

      Comeronyms: catalytic converter, exhaust pipe, tailpipe, sidepipe, manifold, header

   4. An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.

      Synonyms: silencer, suppressor

      Antonym: loudener

   6. A type of scarf.

      Hypernyms: scarf < garment

      • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

        The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.

      • 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 4:

        He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]

   8. (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.

Derived terms

• muffler bearing
• mufflered
• muffler furnace
• mufflerless

Descendants

• → Japanese: マフラー
• → Spanish: mofle
• → Welsh: myffler

Translations

part of exhaust pipe

• Azerbaijani: səsboğan
• Belarusian: глушы́цель m (hlušýcjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: заглуши́тел (bg) m (zaglušítel)
• Catalan: silenciador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消音器 (zh) (xiāoyīnqì)

• Dutch: knalpot (nl) m, demper (nl) m, knalpijp (nl) f
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
• French: pot d'échappement (fr) m, silencieux d'échappement m
• Georgian: მაყუჩი (maq̇uči)
• German: Schalldämpfer (de) m
• Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
• Indonesian: knalpot (id)
• Irish: ciúnadóir m
• Italian: smorzatore m, silenziatore (it) m, marmitta (it) f
• Japanese: マフラー (ja) (mafurā), 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki)
• Korean: 머플러 (meopeulleo), 소음기 (so'eumgi)
• Latvian: trokšņa slāpētājs m
• Lithuanian: duslintuvas m
• Malay: ekzos (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyddemper m, lydpotte m or f, eksospotte m or f

  Nynorsk: lyddempar m, lydpotte f

• Polish: tłumik wydechowy m
• Portuguese: silencioso (pt) m, silenciador (pt) m
• Romanian: tobă de eșapament (ro) f
• Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m (glušítelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ауспух m

  Latin: auspuh m

• Spanish: silenciador m, mófler m (Dominican Republic), muffler m (mófler, máfler, Americas), silencioso (es) m
• Swedish: ljuddämpare (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: susturucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: глушни́к m (hlušnýk)
• Welsh: distewydd m

scarf — see scarf