muffler
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editmuffler (plural mufflers)
- Something or someone that muffles.
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- Synonym: silencer
- Holonym: exhaust system
- Comeronyms: catalytic converter, exhaust pipe, tailpipe, sidepipe, manifold, header
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- Synonyms: silencer, suppressor
- Antonym: loudener
- A type of scarf.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.
- 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 4:
- He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.[1]
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
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scarf — see scarf
References
edit- ^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 81
Spanish
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Borrowed from English muffler.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmofleɾ/ [ˈmo.fleɾ]
- Rhymes: -ofleɾ
- IPA(key): /ˈmufleɾ/ [ˈmu.fleɾ]
- Rhymes: -ufleɾ
- Syllabification: muf‧fler
Noun
editmuffler m (plural mufflers)
- (automotive, Latin America) muffler
- Alternative forms: mófler, mofle, mufle, mufla
- Synonyms: silenciador, silencioso
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
edit- “muffler”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
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