mouffle
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mouffle (plural mouffles)
- (Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.
- 1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament:
- The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.