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What (who) is muff - definition
FILM FESTIVAL
MUFF
muff
(muffs, muffing, muffed)
1.
If you muff something, you do it badly or you make a mistake while you are doing it, so that it is not successful. (INFORMAL)
He muffed his opening speech.
VERB: V n
2.
A muff is a piece of fur or thick cloth shaped like a short hollow cylinder. You wear a muff on your hands to keep them warm in cold weather.
N-COUNT
muff
v. a.
Muddle, mull, spoil.
muff
muff1
¦ noun
1. a short tube made of fur or other warm material into which the hands are placed for warmth.
2. vulgar slang a woman's genitals.
Origin
C16: from Du. mof, MDu. muffel, from med. L. muff(u)la, of unknown ultimate origin.
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muff2
informal
¦ verb handle clumsily; bungle.
¦ noun a mistake or failure, especially a failure to catch a ball cleanly.
Origin
C19: of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is an Australian independent film festival featuring mostly genre, controversial, transgressive and avant garde material.
Examples of use of muff
1. "Nobody knows what a muff is anymore," she sighs. (This version CORRECTS by adding Junior to King‘s name and holiday).)
2. Johnson, and so she planned to pack up some handwarmers and footwarmers and a trusty old muff, and make her way to Obama‘s swearing–in.
3. But family members noticed her diamond–encrusted engagement and wedding rings were missing, along with a Victorian muff chain she wore as a necklace.
4. He arrives at a campaign event near Docklands wearing a sort of neck muff which pulls up over his chin to make him more anonymous.
5. A diamond encrusted engagement ring, a diamond encrusted wedding ring and a Victorian muff chain, used as a neck chain, have been taken.