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plural muffs
(historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. quotations
Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
(vulgar, slang) Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
(by extension, vulgar, slang) A woman or girl.
(glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. examples
The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds. examples
A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe. examples
(colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. quotations examples
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?
1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower
(slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
A bird, the whitethroat. examples
third-person singular simple present muffs, present participle muffing, simple past and past participle muffed
(sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. examples
To mishandle; to bungle. quotations examples
Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 69
(slang) A muffin. quotations
Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs.
2010, Lindsay G. Arthur, The Litigators, page 63