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Muff has 10 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a warm tubular covering for the hands

2

(sports) dropping the ball

3

A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.

4

A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.

5

A muffin.

Verb
1

fail to catch, as of a ball

2

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"

3

To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

2

A village in County Donegal, Ireland

See Also
muff pistol muffin pubic hair vulva cylinder bungle fool muff diver
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
handwear blunder fail
Rhyming Words
luff ruff buff duff nuff guff huff kuff cuff puff wuff tuff scuff chuff bluff snuff sluff fluff stuff knuff
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