mouffle
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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.