muff

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /mʌf/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /mɐf/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Northern-England: /mʊf/
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• rhymes with -ʌf
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, variant of Mowe, itself from Middle English maugh (“son-in-law”), from Old Norse mágr. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun mupf (“drooping mouth”), which is probably ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding mouth, pout”).

Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).

Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).

Clipping of muffin.

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Irish: Magh — village in County Donegal, Ireland
• Belarusian: му́фта (múfta) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Belarusian: мутэ́рка (mutérka) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Bulgarian: маншон (manšon) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Chinese Mandarin: 手籠 /手笼 (shǒulóng) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Czech: rukávník — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Dutch: mof — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Finnish: puuhka — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Finnish: muhvi — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• French: manchon — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• German: Muff — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Hungarian: muff — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Icelandic: múffa — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Ingrian: mufta — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Italian: manicotto — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Japanese: マフ (mafu) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Korean: 토시 (tosi) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Korean: 머프 (meopeu) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Norwegian Bokmål: muffe — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Norwegian Nynorsk: muffe — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Polish: mufka — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Portuguese: regalo — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Russian: му́фта (múfta) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Serbo-Croatian: rukovnica — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Spanish: manguito — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Ukrainian: му́фта (múfta) — a piece of fur or cloth for keeping the hands warm
• Finnish: pehko — pubic hair
• Finnish: tussu — pubic hair
• French: toison — pubic hair
• French: touffe — pubic hair
• Italian: pelo pubico — pubic hair
• Italian: fica — pubic hair
• Portuguese: pentelho — pubic hair
• Russian: мохнатка (moxnatka) — pubic hair
• Bulgarian: муфа (mufa) — a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe
• Chinese Mandarin: 套筒 (tàotǒng) — a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe
• Russian: муфта (mufta) — a short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe
• Bulgarian: пропуск (propusk) — an error
• Italian: fallo — an error
• Swedish: tabbe — an error
• Bulgarian: изпускам (izpuskam) — in American football, to drop or mishandle the ball
• Bulgarian: оплесквам (opleskvam) — by extension, to mishandle any situation
• Finnish: tunaroida — by extension, to mishandle any situation
• Finnish: möhliä — by extension, to mishandle any situation
• Finnish: töpätä — by extension, to mishandle any situation