muffle

[< F muffle muzzle]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.

Quotations

1791

I bought 20 lb. of Moose meat, and a Muffle, as it is called. . . .

1873

A banquet of baronial proportions was decreed--Buffalo tongues and humps . . . the muf[f]Ies of Moose-deer, the tails of Beaver. . . .

1958

Muffle--the great proboscis of the lordly moose appearing as an article of food is terrifying to say the least.