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Muff   /məf/   Listen
noun
Muff  n.  
1.
A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
2.
(Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
3.
(Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
4.
A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. (Colloq.) "A muff of a curate."
5.
(Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
6.
(Zool.) The whitethroat. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Muff  v. t.  (past & past part. muffed; pres. part. muffing)  To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.





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"Muff" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the nun about you!" grinned Dick. "I'd be sorry for the convent you were in. Look here, if I got you some sweets and chucked up the bag would you catch it or muff it?" ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... but not the worse for that. I am really puzzled with my perfect ignorance of what I mean to do;—not stay, if I can help it, but where to go?[77] Sligo is for the North;—a pleasant place, Petersburgh, in September, with one's ears and nose in a muff, or else tumbling into one's neckcloth or pocket-handkerchief! If the winter treated Buonaparte with so little ceremony, what would it inflict upon your solitary traveller?—Give me a sun, I care not ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... Tyson had started from her seat and was waving her muff wildly in the air. "Look—there he goes! Oh, did you see him take that fence? What an insane thing to do with ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... sorry for her, whoever she is. Just think, she'll have to pair with that unspeakable little muff of a Meffia. I ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White
... said Mattie to Bertie. "I'm proudest of my new red-top boots," said Bertie. "I'm proudest of my new black hat," said Clay. Mattie was proudest of her muff and boa. Little Bell was proudest ...
— The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People • Various


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