muffishness

English

Etymology

From muffish +‎ -ness.

Noun

muffishness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being muffish.
   • 1866, Henry Kingsley, Leighton Court: A Country House Story - Volume 2, page 255:

     There was only one symptom of his old muffishness left about him. He had clung to that old valetudianarian self-considering creed, which he had got, after all, from his mother, as long as he could; but he had been driven from point to point of it—first by Laura Seckerton (now Lady Poyntz), and secondly by Lady Jane Portobello, his present bride—until he had hardly any of it left.

   • 1868 March 14, Lynn Lynton, “The Girl of the Period”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 340:

     The girl of the period has done away with such moral muffishness as consideration for others, or regard for counsel and rebuke.

   • 2021, Frederic W. Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little:

     Everybody knew that had he properly exerted his abilities he was capable of beating almost any boy; so, to quiet his conscience, he professed to ridicule diligence as an unboyish piece of muffishness, and was never slow to sneer at the "grinders," as he contemptuously called all those who laid themselves out to win school distinctions.