muff : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: muff	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for muff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muff n a warm tubular covering for the hands (sports) dropping the ball Synonym(s): fumble, muff v fail to catch, as of a ball 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" Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ({Sylvia cinerea}), called also {strawsmear}, {nettlebird}, {muff}, and {whitecap}, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ({S. hortensis}), and the lesser whitethroat ({S. curruca}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muff \Muff\ (m[ucr]f), n. [Cf. LG. muff, D. mof, G., Dan., & Sw. muff, F. moufle mitten, LL. muffula, MHG. mouwe sleeve, D. mouw, and E. muffle, v.] 1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold. 2. (Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe. 3. (Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. 4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. Prov. E. maffle to slammer.] A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] [bd]A muff of a curate.[b8] --Thackeray. 5. [See 4.] (Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. 6. (Zo[94]l.) The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muff \Muff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muffing}.] To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.