Difference between Fumble and Muff

What is the difference between Fumble and Muff?

Fumble as a verb is to idly touch or nervously handle while Muff as a verb is in american football, to drop or mishandle the ball, especially during a punt or kick-off.

Fumble

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To idly touch or nervously handle To grope awkwardly in trying to find something To blunder uncertainly To drop a ball or a baton etc

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A ball etc. that has been dropped

Muff

Part of speech: verb

Definition: In American football, to drop or mishandle the ball, especially during a punt or kick-off.By extension, to mishandle any situation.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.Female pubic hair; the vulva.A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.An error, a mistake.shortened form of muffin.

We hope you now know whether to use Fumble or Muff in your sentence.

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