muff
/mʌf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
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- "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?"
- "[…]being good is so much like being a muff, generally."
- "But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: maugh, mágr, -, *mauwu
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mʌf/
- British English: /mʌf/