Meaning

noun a warm tubular covering for the hands

noun (sports) dropping the ball

verb fail to catch, as of a ball

origin* As an English surname, variant of Mowe, itself from Middle English maugh (“son-in-law”), from Old Norse mágr. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun mupf (“drooping mouth”), which is probably ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding mouth, pout”).

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