See muffish on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1859, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 89, page 257:",
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"ref": "1860, Florence Wilford, Play and Earnest. A Tale, page 327:",
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"ref": "1875, Charles Thomas Samuel Birch Reynardson, 'Down the Road': Or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman:",
"text": "Nothing looks so cocktail and muffish on a coach as to see a man learning to catch his whip, and after many futile efforts taking it upside down for this purpose, and twisting the thong round and round with the point downwards, as if he was stirring porridge for a pack of hounds.",
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"ref": "1882, “A Little Blue Skye”, in Sunday: Reading for the Young:",
"text": "'In my opinion,' he added, recovering himself, 'it's you who are muffish if you can't manage your tricks by yourself. You were always better at that kind of thing than I was.'",
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"ref": "1903, Katharine Tynan, A Red, Red Rose, page 150:",
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"ref": "1914, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Story of Duciehurst, page 208:",
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"lackluster or timid; effeminate; without spirit."
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