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The Meaning of muff

  • (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
  • (n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
  • (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
  • (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
  • (n.) The whitethroat.
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

Synonyms

fumble , botch , bodge , bumble , fumble , botch up , 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 up

Rhymes

acuff , bluff , bruff , buff , chuff , cluff , cuff , cuffe , duff , dyestuff , earmuff , enough , fisticuff , fluff , foodstuff , gruff , guff , handcuff , hough , huff , leboeuf , lebouef , luff , macduff , mcduff , mcgeough , mcgough , overstuff , pluff , puff , rebuff , rough , ruf , ruff , schuff , scottsbluff , scruff , scuff , shuff , slough , sluff , snuff , stough , stuff , tough , tuff