[
US
/ˈməf/
]
[ UK /mˈʌf/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌf/ ]
VERB
- fail to catch, as of a ball
-
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
NOUN
- a warm tubular covering for the hands
- (sports) dropping the ball
How To Use muff In A Sentence
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
- A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- Two big screens and an electronic scoreboard made up for a muffled PA. Times, Sunday Times
- The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
- What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
- No more fuzzy programmes with muffled sound and colours like confetti in a puddle. The Sun
- Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
- Pete sounded muffled. and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt.
- It would take years before the noise would be muffled by mains electricity. Times, Sunday Times