Difference between Muff and Fumble

What is the difference between Muff and Fumble?

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

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.

Fumble

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To idly touch or nervously handleTo grope awkwardly in trying to find somethingTo blunder uncertainlyTo drop a ball or a baton etc

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A ball etc. that has been dropped

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

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