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muffed up

muffed up is the simple past and past participle of muff up.

Meaning of muff up

Verb

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

  1. To mess up; to botch
    • "You're tying my hands," complained Tommy. "It's a very delicate affair, and the other fellow will muff it up as likely as not, and then where shall I be? I don't believe one of you has got an ounce of tact."1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary

Questions about muffed up

What is muffed up the simple past and past participle of?
Muffed up is the simple past and past participle of muff up.

Words near muffed up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muffed up (page history and authors); muff up (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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