muff
muff is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
- noun. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
- noun. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- noun. A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
- noun. A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
- noun. The whitethroat.
- transitive verb. To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
- noun. (sports) dropping the ball
- noun. a warm tubular covering for the hands
- verb. 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"
- verb. fail to catch, as of a ball
Synonyms
fumble, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, mishandle, spoil
Common word forms
muffs, muffed, muffer, muffing
Words from these letters
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