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English
Etymology
From muffle + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
muffler (plural mufflers)
- (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
- A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
- A type of scarf.
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 […]
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gasmask.[1]
Derived terms
Descendants
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
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References
- ^ Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech, volume 47, number 1/2, page 81