Muff

Quick meaning: Muff is a noun meaning (synecdochic, vulgar slang) A woman or girl.

Meaning

(synecdochic, vulgar slang) A woman or girl.

More Meanings

1. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
2. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
3. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
4. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
5. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
6. (vulgar slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
7. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

Example Sentences

Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs.

[…]being good is so much like being a muff, generally.

But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth.

Can you fancy that such an old creature (an old muff, as you call him, you wicked, satirical man!) could ever make en impression on my heart?

Word Forms

• muffs
• muffing
• muffed

Synonyms for muff

Depending on context, synonyms include whiskers, beard, muffin, beaver, berk, box.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bobble, fluff, ball up, blow, screw up, bollocks.

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