muff as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
- 2
muff
noun
1 muff
A warm tubular covering for the hands.
Roget 158:
impotence;
inability,
disability;
disablement,
impuissance,
imbecility;
incapacity,
incapability;
inaptitude,
ineptitude,
incompetence,
unproductivity†;
indocility†;
invalidity,
disqualification;
inefficiency,
wastefulness.
telum imbelle [Lat.],
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
blank,
blank cartridge,
flash in the pan,
vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.],
dead letter,
bit of waste paper,
dummy;
paper tiger;
Quaker gun.
inefficacy
etc.
(inutility)
645†;
failure
etc.
732.
helplessness
etc.
adj.;
prostration,
paralysis,
palsy,
apoplexy,
syncope,
sideration†,
deliquium [Lat.],
collapse,
exhaustion,
softening of the brain,
inanition;
emasculation,
orchiotomy [Med.],
orchotomy [Med.].
cripple,
old woman,
muff,
powder puff,
creampuff,
pussycat,
wimp,
mollycoddle;
eunuch.
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Roget 374:
woman,
she,
her,
female,
petticoat.
feminality†,
muliebrity†;
womanhood
etc.
(adolescence)
131.
womankind;
the sex,
the fair;
fair sex,
softer sex;
weaker vessel.
dame,
madam,
madame,
mistress,
Mrs.
lady,
donna belle [Sp.],
matron,
dowager,
goody,
gammer†;
Frau [G.],
frow†,
Vrouw [Du.],
rani;
good woman,
good wife;
squaw;
wife
etc.
(marriage)
903;
matronage,
matronhood†.
bachelor girl,
new woman,
feminist,
suffragette,
suffragist.
nymph,
wench,
grisette†;
girl
etc.
(youth)
129.
[Effeminacy]
sissy,
betty,
cot betty [U.S.],
cotquean†,
henhussy†,
mollycoddle,
muff,
old woman.
[Female animal]
hen,
bitch,
sow,
doe,
roe,
mare;
she goat,
Nanny goat,
tabita;
ewe,
cow;
lioness,
tigress;
vixen.
gynecaeum†.
estrogen,
oestrogen.
consanguinity
etc.
166
[Female relatives],
paternity
etc.
11.
lesbian,
dyke [Slang].
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Roget 701:
bungler;
blunderer,
blunderhead†;
marplot,
fumbler,
lubber,
duffer,
dauber,
stick;
bad hand,
poor hand,
poor shot;
butterfingers†.
no conjurer,
flat,
muff,
slow coach,
looby†,
lubber,
swab;
clod,
yokel,
awkward squad,
blanc-bec;
galoot†.
land lubber;
fresh water sailor,
fair weather sailor;
horse marine;
fish out of water,
ass in lion's skin,
jackdaw in peacock's feathers;
quack
etc.
(deceiver)
548;
lord of misrule.
sloven,
slattern,
trapes†.
amateur,
novice,
greenhorn
(learner)
541.
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Dutch: mof
Polish: mufka
2 muff
sports Dropping the ball.
synonym: fumble.
verb
1 muff
Fail to catch, as of a ball.
2 muff
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil ... show more.
Dutch: bederven, hannesen, haspelen, infesteren, klunzen, krukken, mispeuteren, naar de knoppen helpen, stuntelen, verbroddelen, verbrodden, verbruien, vergallen, verhaspelen, verkankelemienen, verkankeren, verkloten, verknallen, verknoeien, verknollen, verpesten, verprutsen, versjteren, verstieren, verzieken ... show more
Moby thesaurus: bad job, be all thumbs, bevue, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, butterfingers, clumsy, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, dub, duffer, error, etourderie, faux pas, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, foozler, foul-up, fumble, fumble-fist, gaucherie, goof, goof up, goofball, goofer, hash, hick, louse up, lumber, lummox, lump, mar, mess, miscue, mistake, muddle, muffer, murder, off day, play havoc with, rube, sad work, screw up, slip, slob, spoil, stumble, stumblebum, stumblebunny, trip ... show more.
muffed
Moby thesaurus: botched, bungled, butchered, fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, murdered, negligent, spoiled.
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