Muffed vs Buffed - What's the difference?
muffed | buffed |
(muff)
(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:
(buff)
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
* Shakespeare
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
A brownish yellow colour.
* Dryden
A military coat made of buff leather.
(informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
(gaming) An effect that temporally makes a gaming character stronger.
(rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
The bare skin.
* Wright
The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
* Police said the 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and "buff" into bricks. (CBC)
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
(bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed'' or ''buffed out )
* 1994 , Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture , page 155:
(slang) attractive.
To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
(gaming) To make a character stronger.
(obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between muffed and buffed
is that muffed is past tense of muff while buffed is past tense of buff.muffed
English
Verb
(head)muff
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(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.
Etymology 3
Shortening.buffed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*buff
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- a suit of buff
- a visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff
- (Shakespeare)
- He’s a history buff .
- to strip to the buff
- To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
Derived terms
* in the buffAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfAdjective
(en-adj)- The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
- The appearance of logic often derives from faulty syllogisms such as Sgt. Koon's conclusion that King was an ex-con because he was "buffed out " (heavily muscled). The thinking is: "ex-cons are often buffed out; this man is buffed out; therefore, this man is an ex-con."
Derived terms
* buff-tip moth * bufflyVerb
(en verb)- The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
Derived terms
* buff out * buff up * buff wheelSynonyms
* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnishAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfSee also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.