What's the difference between fuff and muff?

Fuff


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To puff.

Example Sentences:

Muff


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
  • (n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
  • (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
  • (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
  • (n.) The whitethroat.
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
  • (2) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (3) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
  • (4) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
  • (5) the throat plate could be surrounded with muff a 4-5 mm in height which would provide a greater soldering area and thus increase the strength of the connection.
  • (6) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
  • (7) The muffs and most earplugs produced similar attenuation levels at high frequencies, although the muffs produced less attenuation at low frequencies.
  • (8) Ten different common muff-type ear defenders were tested by 50 potential users for comfort and ease of use.
  • (9) Everyone believed they knew the script to come but Germany muff ed their lines.
  • (10) The author suggests a tube formed from the omentum and enveloping a drainage rubber tube like a muff.
  • (11) During its early stages of development the fungus is always surrounded by a thick bacterial muff.
  • (12) End-to-side microvascular anastomosis is performed by applying four crossed-fixing sutures and by mantling a hemostatic sponge muff (eg, Spongostan) impregnated with fibrinogen-thrombin glue.
  • (13) The subject-fit condition resulted in significantly lower protection levels, from 4 to 14 dB, at 1000 Hz and below for a premolded polymer earplug, a user-molded foam earplug, and a double protector consisting of a muff over the foam plug.
  • (14) After original bassist Kim Deal left the group six days into the recording of the new material, the band hired Kim Shattuck of the Muffs to replace her temporarily .
  • (15) Plastic ear plugs were preferred by 44%, vinyl foam ear plugs by 26%, fibreglass down by 18%, and ear muffs by 11% of the workers.
  • (16) By means of morphometrical grid amount of cells in the periarterial lymphoid muffs (PLM) and in marginal zones (MZ) of the spleen have been counted.
  • (17) A total of 10 cases are presented, of patients with tarso-metatarsal luetic osteoarthropathy, characterized by a mosaic of destructive lesions (osteoporosis, osteonecrosis, osteolysis, bone goma, spontaneous amputations of bone segments), coexisting with bone-constructive lesions (osteophitosis, compact layer condensation, osteosclerosis, peridiaphisal-epiphiseal muff), with periostal and articular reactions.
  • (18) So they carried on, with friends filling in: Kim Shattuck of LA pop-punk band the Muffs is currently playing bass.
  • (19) Movement activity caused up to a 6-dB significant reduction in frequency-specific attenuation over time for the premolded plug, muff, and muff-plug combination.
  • (20) 4.03am GMT Florida State 13-21 Auburn, 3:40, 3rd quarter And Auburn almost muffs the punt return again!

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