The word 'muff' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a tightly-woven tube of fur or fabric that is used to keep the hands warm. For example, "She pulled on her old brown muff as she stepped out into the cold winter air."
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".
Originally a purse and hand warmer in one, the muff was first introduced to women's fashion in 1570, when fur trimming was becoming popular.
On the flipside are instructions for how to play "cock, muff, bumhole", the variation on paper, scissors, stone created for Nathan Barley, a satire of scenester life aired on Channel 4. Making fun of the global scenesters is futile, for they love nothing more than to mock themselves.
In June 1967, "Paper Sun" by Traffic, Steve Winwood's new group, gave Island its first top five single, while his brother Muff became the label's first A&R man.
Such handguns were produced in a wide range of sizes and calibres, from large military "horse" pistols to small pocket and muff pistols for personal protection.
Vera foiled this by hiding the ugly boil in a specially designed little flowered evening muff.
Some of its details, like the dancing chunks of ice and the talking reindeer, would present no problem to the creator of Thumper, even if others belong to "The Interpretation of Dreams" — the robber maiden, say, who holds a knife to the heroine, throws a pigeon in her face, and slides grateful hands into her muff.
She told us that benefit audiences are more demanding than regular ones, and that at a recent hospital benefit the spectators tore several hundred ermine tails off a muff she was carrying as she walked up the aisle.
Nothing ensued, as Schilling quickly dismissed the next three Yankee hitters, but the tiny bank shot, which is not all that rare in the sport, was the sort of wrinkle that once could have invited a larger, grossly unfair complication and perhaps even a new vitrine next to Buckner's muff or Boone's shot in the ghastly Sox gallery.
At Wesley's Chapel in 1951, she wore with it a matching muff and a soft-brimmed cap whose curled ostrich feathers resembled a dirty mop stuck on the side of the head, and she still looked smashing.
Dovetail might seem the most unlikely spot to serve it, though, and it's hard to imagine the buttoned-up clientele ordering the sandwich by its common nickname: "Waiter, give me a muff!" — Andrea Thompson.
