muts

See also: Muts and müts

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

muts

  1. masculine plural of mut

Noun

muts

  1. plural of mut

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mutse, possibly from Medieval Latin almutia; compare amictus (“veiled”).[1] Cognate with German Mütze.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mʏts/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: muts
  • Rhymes: -ʏts

Noun

muts f (plural mutsen, diminutive mutsje n)

  1. tuque (knitted winter cap), a type of brimless hat; a similar soft (nearly) brimless hat
    Een muts op mijn hoofd, mijn kraag staat omhoog. Het is hier ijskoud, maar gelukkig wel droog.(Guus Meeuwis – Brabant)
    A tuque on my head, my collar stands high. Here it is ice-cold, but luckily enough, dry.
  2. (informal) vagina
  3. (derogatory) annoying or stupid woman
    • 2015, Natasha Oakley, Onverwachte bruiloft, →ISBN, page 21:
      Die bemoeizuchtige, oude muts moest ook een voornaam hebben, maar zij had hem nog nooit gehoord.
      That meddling, old annoying woman had to have a first name, but she had never heard it.
  4. (informal) clumsy woman, a female dork
    • 2013, Rachel Renée Russell, Mijn gemuts‎, →ISBN, page 15:
      Dat ik de grootste muts van de hele school ben is al erg genoeg.
      It's bad enough that I'm the biggest dork of the entire school.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Afrikaans: mus
  • Jersey Dutch: müts
  • → Papiamentu: mùts
  • → Saramaccan: músu
  • → Sranan Tongo: musu

References
  1. van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “muts”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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