Beard vs Muff - What's the difference?
beard | muff | Synonyms |
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
(obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
* Macaulay
* Barnaby , December 6, 1943
* Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
(lb) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
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*: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 .
(lb) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
(lb) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
(colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
* Thackeray
A bird, the whitethroat.
(sport) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
To mishandle; to bungle.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 69:
Muff is a synonym of beard.
As nouns the difference between beard and muff
is that beard is facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw while muff is a piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.As verbs the difference between beard and muff
is that beard is to grow hair on the chin and jaw while muff is to drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.As a proper noun Beard
is {{surname|from=nicknames}.beard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the beard of grain
Derived terms
* beardedSee also
* (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awnVerb
(en verb)- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
Derived terms
* beard the lion, beard the lion in his denAnagrams
*muff
English
(wikipedia muff)Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* whiskers, beard, muff and beard (bird feathers)Etymology 2
Origin unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- a muff of a curate
Verb
(en verb)- Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs , like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.