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muff

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1. muff - Noun

2. muff - Verb

3. Muff - Proper noun

Meaning

A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.

A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.

A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

The whitethroat.

To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent. Gordon B. Hinckley

To speak the unspeakable without the proper rhetorical flourish or introduction; to muff that flourish, either by accident, misjudgment, or simple ignorance; to choose the wrong flourish or not choose any (i.e., to choose the flourish called "the literal") is to perform the unspeakable. Samuel R. Delany

I'm talking from my muff. Bill Allred

There goes my muff. Gina Barberi

Now my muff smells like steak. Gina Barberi

I left my muff in Park city. Gina Barberi

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