Duff vs. Muff — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Duff and Muff
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Duff
A stiff flour pudding made with fruit and spices and boiled in a cloth bag or steamed.
Muff
To perform or handle clumsily or ineptly; bungle.
Duff
Decaying leaves and branches covering a forest floor.
Muff
(Sports) To fail to make (a catch).
Duff
Fine coal; slack.
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Muff
To perform a task clumsily or ineptly.
Duff
The buttocks.
Muff
A clumsy or bungled action.
Duff
(dialectal) Dough.
Muff
(Sports) A failure to make a catch.
Duff
A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag, or steamed.
Muff
A small cylindrical fur or cloth cover, open at both ends, in which the hands are placed for warmth.
Duff
A pudding-style dessert, especially one made with plums.
Muff
A cluster of feathers on the side of the face of certain breeds of fowl.
Duff
Decaying vegetable matter on the forest floor.
Muff
Vulgar Slang The vulva.
Duff
Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
Muff
(historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
Duff
Fine and dry coal in small pieces, usually anthracite.
Muff
Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
Duff
(British) A mixture of coal and rock.
Muff
A woman or girl.
Duff
(slang) The bits left in the bottom of the bag after the booty has been consumed, like crumbs.
Muff
(glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Duff
Something spurious or fake; a counterfeit, a worthless thing.
Muff
The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
Duff
An error.
Muff
A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
Duff
The buttocks.
Muff
(colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
Duff
(UK) Worthless; not working properly, defective.
Why do I always get a shopping trolley with duff wheels?
Muff
An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Duff
To disguise something to make it look new.
Muff
A bird, the whitethroat.
Duff
(Australia) To alter the branding of stolen cattle; to steal cattle.
Muff
(slang) A muffin.
Duff
To hit the ground behind the ball.
Muff
(sport) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
Duff
Dough or paste.
Muff
To mishandle; to bungle.
Duff
A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; - a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
Muff
A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
Duff
The buttocks; as, get off your duff and get to work.
Muff
A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
Duff
To treat or manipulate so as to give a specious appearance to; to fake; hence, to cheat.
Muff
A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Duff
In Australia, to alter the brands on (cattle, horses, etc.); to steal (cattle, etc.), and alter their brands.
Muff
A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
Duff
A stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually containing e.g. currents and citron
Muff
A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Muff
The whitethroat.
Muff
To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
Muff
A warm tubular covering for the hands
Muff
(sports) dropping the ball
Muff
Fail to catch, as of a ball
Muff
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
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