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Muffed vs Fuffed - What's the difference?

muffed | fuffed |

As verbs the difference between muffed and fuffed

is that muffed is (muff) while fuffed is (fuff).

muffed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (muff)

  • muff

    English

    (wikipedia muff)

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping 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 figureā€”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.
  • Synonyms
    * whiskers, beard, muff and beard (bird feathers)

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
  • * Thackeray
  • a muff of a curate
  • A bird, the whitethroat.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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:
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A muffin.
  • ----

    fuffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fuff)

  • fuff

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To puff.
  • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)