intransitive verb. To perform or handle clumsily or ineptly; bungle. synonym: botch.

intransitive verb. To fail to make (a catch).

intransitive verb. To perform a task clumsily or ineptly.

noun. A clumsy or bungled action.

noun. A failure to make a catch.

noun. A small cylindrical fur or cloth cover, open at both ends, in which the hands are placed for warmth.

noun. A cluster of feathers on the side of the face of certain breeds of fowl.

noun. The vulva.

noun. A lap or fleece of fibrous material, such as the lap of waste cotton, which is taken from the comb of a combing-machine.

To mumble; speak indistinctly.

To perform clumsily or badly; fail, as in some attempt in playing a game; muddle; make a mess of.

Specifically, in ball-playing, to fail to hold (the ball) when it comes into the hands.

To act clumsily or badly, especially in playing a game, as in receiving a ball into one's hands and failing to hold it.

noun. A cover into which both hands may be thrust in order to keep them warm.

noun. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. Macgillirray. Also muffet.

noun. A cylinder of blown glass ready for slitting and spreading open in the flattening-furnace to form a plate.

noun. A joiningtube or coupler for uniting two pipes end to end.

noun. A simpleton; a stupid or weak-spirited person.

noun. An inefficient apprentice craftsman.

noun. Anything done in a clumsy or bungling fashion, as a bad stroke of play in a game of ball; specifically, in ball-playing, failure to hold a ball that comes into one's hands.

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

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

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

noun. A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.

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

noun. The whitethroat.

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

noun. A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.

noun. Female pubic hair; the vulva.

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

noun. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.

noun. An error, a mistake.

noun. shortened form of muffin.

verb. In American football, to drop or mishandle the ball, especially during a punt or kick-off.

verb. By extension, to mishandle any situation.

verb. fail to catch, as of a ball

noun. a warm tubular covering for the hands

verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

noun. (sports) dropping the ball

"George Romney (1781, discussed above), where her small muff is centered below her sheathed bosom and her modestly hidden hands suggest another story."

catch  

muff pistol  muff-diver  muff-diving  

muffed  muffing  

bloomer  blooper  blunder  boner  boo-boo  

Slough  bluff  bruff  buff  cuff  

boa  bonnet  cape  cravat  doublet  

bad job  be all thumbs  bevue  blow  blunder  

muffed  muffing  muffs