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Is muff a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word muff is a Scrabble US word. The word muff is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is muff a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word muff is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

M3U1F4F4

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Yes. The word muff is a Words With Friends word. The word muff is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

MUFF,

3-letter words (1 found)

FUM,

2-letter words (3 found)

FU,MU,UM,

You can make 5 words from muff according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of muff

muff umff mfuf fmuf ufmf fumf muff umff mfuf fmuf ufmf fumf mffu fmfu mffu fmfu ffmu ffmu uffm fufm uffm fufm ffum ffum

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Definitions and meaning of muff

muff

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /mʌf/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf

Etymology 1

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

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

  1. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
  2. (vulgar, slang) Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
  3. (by extension, vulgar, slang) A woman or girl.
  4. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  5. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
  6. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
Synonyms
  • whiskers, beard, muff and beard (bird feathers):
Derived terms
Translations

References

  • “muff, n.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  • “muff”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

  1. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. [from 19th c.]
  2. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. [from 19th c.]
  3. A bird, the whitethroat.
Translations

Verb

muff (third-person singular simple present muffs, present participle muffing, simple past and past participle muffed)

  1. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. [from 19th c.]
  2. To mishandle; to bungle. [from 1920s]
Translations

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

  1. (slang) A muffin.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʊf]

Verb

muff

  1. singular imperative of muffen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of muffen

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Muff, from Dutch mof ("muff"), from Middle Dutch moffel, from Middle French moufle ("mitten"), from Medieval Latin muffula ("fur-lined glove"), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmufː]
  • Hyphenation: muff
  • Rhymes: -ufː

Noun

muff (plural muffok)

  1. (archaic) muff (handwarmer)
  2. (slang) vagina
  3. (slang) woman

Declension

Further reading

  • muff in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

From German Muffe, a Low German subform of Muff.

Noun

muff c

  1. a muff (for keeping hands warm)
  2. a sleeve ((tubular) covering or lining, e.g. for connecting pipes)
  3. (slang) muff (female pubic hair, female genitalia)

Declension

Derived terms

  • rattmuff (“steering wheel cover made of fabric”)

References

  • muff in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • muff in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • Fula Ordboken

Source: wiktionary.org