Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
- 2noun
A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
- 3noun
A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- 4noun
A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
- 5noun
A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
- 6noun
The whitethroat.
- 7transitive verb
To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
- 8noun
(sports) dropping the ball
Synonyms
- 9noun
a warm tubular covering for the hands
- 10verb
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"
- 11verb
fail to catch, as of a ball
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