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mouffle

mouffle noun: the loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.

Noun

mouffle (plural mouffles)

  1. (Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.
    • The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament

Forms of mouffle

pluralmouffles

Origin of mouffle

French

Questions about mouffle

What does mouffle mean?
Mouffle means the loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.
What part of speech is mouffle?
Mouffle is a noun.
What is the plural of mouffle?
The plural of mouffle is mouffles.

Words near mouffle in the dictionary

  1. Moufang plane
  2. Moufang planes
  3. Moufang polygon
  4. Moufang polygons
  5. Mouffean
  6. mouffle
  7. mouffles
  8. moufflon
  9. moufflons
  10. moufful
  11. mouffuls

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