Definitions for muff

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muff muff

Spelling: [muhf]

IPA: /mʌf/

Muff is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in muff (ffmu).

Definitions for muff

noun

1. a thick, tubular case for the hands, covered with fur or other material, used by women and girls for warmth and as a handbag.
2. a bungled or clumsy action or performance.
3. Sports. a failure to hold onto a ball that may reasonably be expected to be caught successfully.
4. a tuft of feathers on the sides of the head of certain fowls.
5. Slang: Vulgar. a woman's pubic area.
6. See under muff glass.
7. sheet glass made from a blown cylinder (muff) that is split and flattened.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to bungle; handle clumsily:
2. Sports. to fail to hold onto (a ball that may reasonably be expected to be caught successfully); fumble.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to bungle; perform clumsily.

Origin of muff

1590-1600; Dutch mof, earlier moffel, muffel mitten, muff Old North French moufle early Medieval Latin muffula, perhaps Frankish

Examples for muff

I also told Aunt Belle to see about relining my mink cape and muff.

He collided with the girl who, with a furtive gesture, slipped something into her muff.

Flora, blown by breezes North, Hides her fingers in her muff.

She drew the paper from her muff with an impulsive movement and thrust it toward him.

Jenkins is all very well for work, but he is nothing but a muff in other things.

She threw down her cloak and muff, the instant she came in, with an air of ill-humour, and undressed herself in a hurried manner.

Elinor slipped Judith's nervous hand into her muff within her own.

David winced at the huge bunch of violets fastened to her muff.

Bobinette had swallowed the contents of a small phial hidden in her muff!

I asked if the muff, as well as the glove, had been searched carefully.