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
The timid mice again cower close together, when the great door clashes, and Mr Sownds and Mrs Miff treading the circle of their daily lives, unbroken as a marriage ring, come in.
From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles
"I will say Miff MacCarfy iss you will say ze uzzer little pig, too."
From Seven Little Australians by Turner, Ethel Sybil
Mr Sownds is sitting on the steps and Mrs Miff is dusting in the church, when a young couple, plainly dressed, come in.
From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles
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