muff

Meaning

Noun

1. A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
2. (slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
3. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
4. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
5. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.

Verb

1. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
2. To mishandle; to bungle.

Synonyms

fumble

bungle

botch

mishandle

mess up

fuck up

bollix

spoil

flub

inaptitude

fluff

loutishness

bollocks

ungainliness

unhandiness

unskillfulness

blow

bollix up

bollocks up

botch up

louse up

foul up

bodge

ball up

inaptitudeness

sloughiness

muck up

awkwardness

screw up

bobble

sleeve

bumble

helplessness

quill

sheepishness

silliness

slip

slip-up

socket

solecism

stumble

stupidity

stupidness

tinker

tomfoolery

trip

wristlet

ballup

unreliable person

trip-up

liner bushing

balls-up

barrel

bell

🔔

blooper

blunder

boner

boob

bull

bush

bushing

clanger

clumsiness

contretemps

duffer

failure

fatuity

fault

folly

foolishness

fuckup

gaffe

gantlet

gaucherie

goofiness

howler

idiocy

jacket

mantle

mismanage

misstep

mistake

nonsense

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌf/

Etymology

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