muff
MUHF · noun
DutchEnglish
Origin
Muff, the warm tube worn over both hands, most likely comes from Dutch mof, meaning "muff" or "mitten."
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Journey
The word seems to have stayed close to its original sense — a soft covering for the hands — with no dramatic shift recorded.
Related words
It shares its root with the Dutch word mof itself, suggesting the object traveled into English fashion vocabulary largely unchanged in meaning.