Muffish

Quick meaning: Muffish is an adjective meaning (colloquial, dated) lackluster or timid; effeminate; without spirit.

Meaning

(colloquial, dated) lackluster or timid; effeminate; without spirit.

Example Sentences

I wouldn't be so muffish as to choose anything else.

"Is that what's the matter with you? You look awfully muffish."

'In my opinion,' he added, recovering himself, 'it's you who are muffish if you can't manage your tricks by yourself. You were always better at that kind of thing than I was.'

He might assure his red cheeks and sprouting moustache in the looking-glass that that fellow, St. Denis, had muffish ways, and that girls, especially spirited girls like Peggy, would infinitely prefer a more manly chap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include muckerish, chuffy, pudding-headed, mucko-chummo, boofish, moppy.

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