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muffs

muffs is the plural of muff.

muffs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muff.

Meaning of muff

Noun

muff (plural muffs)

  1. A piece of fur or cloth, usually open at both ends, used to keep the hands warm.
    • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. (slang, vulgar) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
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  3. (slang, vulgar) A woman or girl.
  4. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  5. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
  6. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.

See all 17 meanings of muff

Proper noun capitalized: Muffs

Muffs

  1. (plural) plural of Muff

Phrases with muffs

Questions about muffs

What is muffs the plural of?
Muffs is the plural of muff.
What part of speech is muffs?
Muffs is a proper noun.

Words near muffs in the dictionary

  1. muffling up
  2. mufflings
  3. mufflon
  4. mufflons
  5. muffly
  6. muffs
  7. muffs up
  8. muffuletta
  9. muffulettas
  10. Muffy
  11. MUFI

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