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muzzle

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Is muzzle a Scrabble word?

Yes, muzzle is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 26 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of muzzle?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.

2. (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

3. (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.Synonyms: bridle

4. (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.Examples: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn."Synonyms: bemuzzle

2. (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.Examples: "Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous."; "Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state."

3. (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.Examples: "Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes"; "And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]"

5. (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.Examples: "The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him."

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "muzzle"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "muzzle"?

Scrabble
26 points
m3
u1
z10
z10
l1
e1
Words With Friends
29 points
m4
u2
z10
z10
l2
e1

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