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muffishness

muffishness noun: the quality of being muffish.

Noun

muffishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being muffish.
    • There was only one symptom of his old muffishness left about him. He had clung to that old valetudianarian self-considering creed, which he had got, after all, from his mother, as long as he could; but he had been driven from point to point of it—first by Laura Seckerton (now Lady Poyntz), and...1866, Henry Kingsley, Leighton Court: A Country House Story - Volume 2, page 255
    • The girl of the period has done away with such moral muffishness as consideration for others, or regard for counsel and rebuke.1868 March 14, Lynn Lynton, “The Girl of the Period”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 340

Origin of muffishness

From muffish + -ness.

Questions about muffishness

What does muffishness mean?
Muffishness means the quality of being muffish.
What part of speech is muffishness?
Muffishness is a noun.

Words near muffishness in the dictionary

  1. muffinlike
  2. muffins
  3. muffinsucker
  4. muffiny
  5. muffish
  6. muffishness
  7. muffle
  8. muffle furnace
  9. muffle furnaces
  10. muffle up
  11. muffled

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