muff

Meaning

1. A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
2. The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
3. A woman or girl.
4. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
5. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
6. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
7. A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
8. An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
9. A bird, the whitethroat.
10. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
11. To mishandle; to bungle.
12. A muffin.
13. A term of endearment.
14. A surname.
15. A diminutive of the female given name Myfanwy.
16. A village in County Donegal, Ireland.
17. An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Etymology / origin

Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).

Related words

Descendant words

• muhvi(Finnish) (der)

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