muffish

1. (colloquial, dated) lackluster or timid; effeminate; without spirit.Examples: "Placed in a tumultuous community, where obedience and study are deemed "muffish," and reckless mischief passes for "pluck," a high-spirited, impulsive boy needs aid from without to bear up against the temptations which assail him."; "I wouldn't be so muffish as to choose anything else."; "Nothing looks so cocktail and muffish on a coach as to see a man learning to catch his whip, and after many futile efforts taking it upside down for this purpose, and twisting the thong round and round with the point downwards, as if he was stirring porridge for a pack of hounds."colloquialdated