maffling
Maffling is an old English dialect word for a simpleton — someone who's a bit muddled, slow, or easily confused.
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Maffling is an old English dialect word for a simpleton — someone who's a bit muddled, slow, or easily confused. The word has a soft, bumbling quality that fits its meaning perfectly. It comes from parts of northern and midland England and has mostly faded from use, but it retains a certain charm as a mild and almost affectionate insult.
Don't send him to negotiate — he's a complete maffling and they'll walk all over him.
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(UK, dialect) A simpleton.
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- maffled82%
A British dialectal adjective meaning confused, bewildered, or thoroughly baffled. The word conveys a deeper confusion than simply puzzled — a state of mental muddle where someone cannot get their thoughts straight. Found in regional English dialect glossaries.
- maffled77%
(UK, dialect) baffled; totally confused.
- moffle66%
(intransitive, UK, dialect, dated) To do something clumsily.
- mafting66%
(obsolete) Of fog, etc.: drifting.