muffler

English

Etymology

From muffle ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌflɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌflə(ɹ)

Noun

muffler (plural mufflers)

1. (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.

   Synonym: silencer

   Holonym: exhaust system

   Comeronyms: catalytic converter, exhaust pipe, tailpipe, sidepipe, manifold, header

2. A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
3. A type of scarf.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.

   • 1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 4:

     He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]

4. (World War I military slang, rare) A gasmask.

Derived terms

• muffler bearing
• muffler furnace

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: マフラー
• → Spanish: mofle
• → Welsh: myffler

Translations

part of exhaust pipe

• Azerbaijani: səsboğan
• Belarusian: глушы́цель m (hlušýcjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: заглуши́тел (bg) m (zaglušítel)
• Catalan: silenciador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消音器 (zh) (xiāoyīnqì)

• Dutch: knalpot (nl) m, demper (nl) m, knalpijp (nl) f
• Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
• French: pot d’échappement (fr) m, silencieux d’échappement m
• Georgian: მაყუჩი (maq̇uči)
• German: Schalldämpfer (de) m
• Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
• Irish: ciúnadóir m
• Italian: smorzatore m, silenziatore (it) m, marmitta (it) f
• Japanese: マフラー (ja) (mafurā), 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki)
• Korean: 머플러 (meopeulleo), 소음기 (so'eumgi)
• Latvian: trokšņa slāpētājs m
• Lithuanian: duslintuvas m
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lyddemper m, lydpotte m or f, eksospotte m or f

  Nynorsk: lyddempar m, lydpotte f

• Portuguese: silencioso (pt) m, silenciador (pt) m
• Romanian: tobă de eșapament (ro) f
• Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m (glušítelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ауспух m

  Roman: auspuh m

• Spanish: silenciador m, mófler m (Dominican Republic), muffler m (Greater United States), silencioso (es) m
• Swedish: ljuddämpare (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: глушни́к m (hlušnýk)
• Welsh: distewydd m

scarf — see scarf