muffed, a.
(mʌft)
[f. muff n.2 + -ed2.]
a. Wearing a muff (in quot. transf.). b. Of certain birds: Having a crest or tuft on the head.
| a. 1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 4 Jan. 3/2 The muffed chin was a matter of taste. |
| b. 1809 T. Donaldson Poems 40 My Hen she was a shining Brown, Wi' Muffi'd head. 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch xx. 290 Finding the head of the muffed hen..lying in a bye corner. 1845 Zoologist III. 929, I never met with more than two kinds of woodcocks, the one, the common muffed or muffled cock..and the other a much smaller bird of darker plumage. 1885 Bazaar 30 Mar. 1265/1 [Pigeons] warranted good performers, flyers, and breeders, muffed, or clear legged. 1899 B'ham Weekly Post 18 Mar. 24/1 The Blondinette [pigeon] is a muffed, crested, and frilled variety. |