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单词 to say not muff
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to say not muff
In negative contexts: a sound, the slightest noise. Frequently in to say not muff, to say neither muff nor mum and variants: to utter not a sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
peacec1395
muffa1500
to put a sock in ita1529
whista1547
to say not muff1652
to hold one's whisht1786
to shut (one's) pan1799
to shut up1840
to hold one's whistc1874
to shut (one's) head, face1876
to wrap up1943
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. vi. 45 The drunken guards say not so much as muff.
c1681 E. Hickeringill Trimmer vi, in Wks. (1716) I. 388 The slaves never durst mutter since, nor scarce say muff.
1869 J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 27 As sooin as they pop into th' hive o' St. Stephen's yo niver hear a muff.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) (at cited word) A didn' sey no moor, nayther moof nur moom.
1902 Æ. Binns in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 192/1 [W. Yorkshire] He nivver made a muff all t'time.
a1930 in Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. (1989) 17 44 Nut a muff.
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