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muffed

muffed is the simple past and past participle of muff.

Meaning of muff

Verb

muff (third-person singular simple present muffs, present participle muffing, simple past and past participle muffed)

  1. To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
  2. To mishandle; to bungle.
    • But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth.1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

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Adjective

muffed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a muff.

Phrases with muffed

Questions about muffed

What does muffed mean?
Muffed means wearing a muff.
What is muffed the simple past and past participle of?
Muffed is the simple past and past participle of muff.
What part of speech is muffed?
Muffed is an adjective.

Words near muffed in the dictionary

  1. muff-diving
  2. muffaletta
  3. muffalettas
  4. muffdiver
  5. muffdivers
  6. muffed
  7. muffed up
  8. muffeletta
  9. muffelettas
  10. muffetee
  11. muffetees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muffed (page history and authors); muff (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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