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muffing

muffing is the present participle and gerund of muff.

Noun

muffing (countable and uncountable, plural muffings)

  1. (slang) The making of a mistake or gaffe.
  2. (slang, uncountable) Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women and other people with testicles.
    • Muffing is a penetration technique enjoyed by some non-op trans women. It involves fingering (or otherwise penetrating) the inguinal canals, the canals through which the testes drop during puberty. […] Sometimes the testes are pushed back up into the body during muffing, and sometimes they're...2015, Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101, Allison Moon, →ISBN, page 153
    • […] she says she and her partner were having a great time last night and she really enjoyed the muffing.2018, Eric Yarbrough, Transgender Mental Health, page 177

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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Forms of muffing

pluralmuffings

Origin of muffing

In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women".

Phrases with muffing

Questions about muffing

What does muffing mean?
Muffing means the making of a mistake or gaffe.
What is muffing the present participle and gerund of?
Muffing is the present participle and gerund of muff.
What part of speech is muffing?
Muffing is a noun.
What is the plural of muffing?
The plural of muffing is muffings.

Words near muffing in the dictionary

  1. muffined
  2. muffineer
  3. muffineers
  4. muffineries
  5. muffinery
  6. muffing
  7. muffing up
  8. muffings
  9. muffinier
  10. muffiniers
  11. muffining

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