miff

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The film will explore how Cooper became torn between two equally devoted women, Mary Kay and his wife, whom he nicknamed Dove, and will also reveal Cooper's acrimonious working relationship with his manager, Miff Ferrie.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2013

If he'll teach me to play the trumpet and give me his old associate, Miff Mole, as trombonist, I'll be very pleased to swap jobs, income and worries about taxes and expenses with him.

From Time Magazine Archive

He held some bad opinions, it would seem, about free seats; and though Mrs Miff hopes he may be gone upwards, she couldn't positively undertake to say so.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

Mr Dombey offers no additional remonstrance; for the clergyman and clerk appear; and Mrs Miff, and Mr Sownds the Beadle, group the party in their proper places at the altar rails.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

“Do ’e bite, sir?” inquired Mrs Miff, in some anxiety, as she passed round the table at a respectful distance from Dumps.

From My Doggie and I by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)