muff

muhvi

möhliä, skäbätä

kömmähdys

toheloida puhekieltä A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
(RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)

Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

a muff of a curate

Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.