What does MUFF mean?
Definitions for MUFF
mʌfmuff
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Princeton's WordNet
muffnoun
a warm tubular covering for the hands
fumble, muffverb
(sports) dropping the ball
muffverb
fail to catch, as of a ball
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck upverb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Wiktionary
muffnoun
A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
muffnoun
Female pubic hair; the vulva.
muffnoun
A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
muffnoun
The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
muffnoun
An error, a mistake.
muffnoun
shortened form of muffin.
muffverb
In American football, to drop or mishandle the ball, especially during a punt or kick-off.
muffverb
By extension, to mishandle any situation.
Etymology: Probably from mof.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Muffnoun
A soft cover for the hands in Winter.
Etymology: muff, Swedish.
Feel but the difference soft and rough,
This a gantlet, that a muff. John Cleveland.What! no more favours, not a ribbon more,
Not fan, not muff. John Suckling.The lady of the spotted muff began. Dryden.
A child that stands in the dark upon his mother’s muff, says he stands upon something, he knows not what. John Locke.
Wikipedia
MUFF
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is an Austalian independent film festival featuring mostly genre, controversial, transgressive and avant garde material.
ChatGPT
muff
A muff is a tube-shaped accessory worn in cold weather to warm the hands, made from fabric or fur. Traditionally, it is used by placing both hands inside the tube from each end. The term can also refer to a muffed shot in sports, specifically in ball games, when a player mishandles or fails to make a clean catch of the ball. Additionally, in the world of sound production or audio engineering, a muff refers to a protective cover designed to limit excess noise interference.
Webster Dictionary
Muffnoun
a soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold
Muffnoun
a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe
Muffnoun
a blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet
Muffnoun
a stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person
Muffnoun
a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands
Muffnoun
the whitethroat
Muffverb
to handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it
Etymology: [Cf. LG. muff, D. mof, G., Dan., & Sw. muff, F. moufle mitten, LL. muffula, MHG. mouwe sleeve, D. mouw, and E. muffle, v.]
Wikidata
Muff
A muff is a fashion accessory for outdoors usually made of a cylinder of fur or fabric with both ends open for keeping the hands warm. It was introduced to women's fashion in the 16th century and was popular with both men and women in the 17th and 18th centuries. By the early 20th century, muffs were used in England only by women. It is also reported that the fashion largely fell out of style in the 19th century. It briefly returned in the late 1940s and 50's. In Roman times, the place of the glove was taken by long sleeves reaching to the hand, and in winter special sleeves of fur were worn. In Medieval Latin we find the word muffulae, defined by Du Cange as chirothecae pellitae et hibernae. He quotes from a cartulary of the year 817, of the issuing to monks of sheepskin coverings to be used during the winter. These may have been, as the Roman certainly were, separate coverings for each hand, although the cartulary cited also distinguishes the glove for summer from the muffulae for winter wear. The Old French moufle meant a thick glove or mitten, and from this the Dutch mof, Walloon mouffe, and thence English "muff", are probably derived.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Muff
muf, n. a warm, soft cover for the hands in winter, usually of fur or dressed skins.—n. Muffettee′, a small muff worn over the wrist. [Prob. from Dut. mof; cf. Ger. muff, a muff.]
Muff
muf, n. a stupid fellow.—v.t. and v.i. to perform awkwardly, spoil: to act clumsily, esp. in letting a ball slip out of the hands. [Prob. related to Dut. muffen, to dote; Ger. muffen, to sulk.]
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Etymology and Origins
Muff
This term was at first applied to an effeminate dandy who at one time, like the ladies, carried a muff to keep his hands warm in winter. This incapacitated him from defending himself with his sword against an unexpected attack at the hands of a street bully, and hence, as now, a muff was easily taken advantage of, or likely to become a prey to the sharp-witted.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MUFF
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Muff is ranked #22838 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Muff surname appeared 1,121 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Muff.
76.8% or 861 total occurrences were White.
19.5% or 219 total occurrences were Black.
1.6% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of MUFF in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of MUFF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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- rukávníkCzech
- MuffGerman
- manguitoSpanish
- töpätä, muhvi, tunaroida, möhliä, puuhkaFinnish
- toison, manchonFrench
- muffHungarian
- pelo pibico, fica, manicotto, falloItalian
- muffeNorwegian
- mofDutch
- muffeNorwegian Nynorsk
- mufkaPolish
- regalo, pentelhoPortuguese
- муфта, мохнаткаRussian
- rukovnicaSerbo-Croatian
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