muff /ˈmʌf/
暖手筒,笨人,失誤(vt.)弄糟,錯過(vi.)行為笨拙
Muff n.
1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
2. Mech. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
3. Glass Manuf. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
4. A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] “A muff of a curate.”
5. Baseball A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
6. Zool. The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.]
Muff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muffed p. pr. & vb. n. Muffing.] To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
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muff
n 1: a warm tubular covering for the hands
2: (sports) dropping the ball [syn: fumble]
v 1: fail to catch, as of a ball
2: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble,
botch up, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil,
muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul
up, mess up, fuck up]