muffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌfɪn/
rhymes: -ʌfɪn
Forms: form: muffins
form: muffining
form: muffined
form: muffined
Etymology: From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff.
Senses: examples: text: I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined at 8.
ref: 1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837, Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 319:
text: And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.
ref: 1965 October 12, “Gingerbread Muffins Start Day Off Right”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 39:
text: NANCY SCRAPES OFF the mold without complaining because it is like a gift from Carl, and she doesn’t have the heart to tell him she is muffined out …
ref: 1987 January 27, Concetta Doucette, “Savings”, in Impact (Albuquerque Journal Magazine), volume 10, number 15, page 13:
text: HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?
ref: 1988 February 28, Bea Lewis, “For Teatime Or Anytime”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 35:
text: We met about 8:00 A.M. for the usual continental breakfast – I am getting over muffined!
ref: 2005, Marlin E. Misner, editor, History of the Reagan Home: The Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois, →ISBN, page 35:
text: ‘So what I can get you to celebrate. Bit of cake?’ ‘I’m all muffined up, thanks!’
ref: 2007, Jane Sigaloff, The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter, Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Hehe, I've eaten three apple muffins this morning. I've all muffined out!
ref: 2017, Carrie Ewin, Chris Ewin, Cheryl Ewin, “Lesson 5: Creating Text Posts”, in Facebook for Seniors: Connect with Friends and Family in 12 Easy Lessons, San Francisco, Caif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, section “Viewing Your Posts on Your Timeline”, page 97:
glosses: To eat muffins.
examples: text: But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"
ref: 1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], →OCLC, page 213:
text: We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables.
ref: 1999, Working Woman, page 96:
text: Well, you know, my mother always told me to welcome new neighbors with muffins, and I just realized you’ve already been here six months and I still haven’t gotten around to baking muffins for you … Well anyway, that’s all I wanted to tell you — consider yourself muffined!
ref: 2001, Nancy Huston, Dolce Agonia, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Grandma Bessie saw me and muffined me.
ref: 2023, Earl Laman, chapter 20, in Being With…, Meadville, Pa.: Fulton Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To feed muffins to.
examples: text: A pale band of flesh muffined up over her shorts, her lively top not quite up to the task of covering it, and Chrissy tugged at the fabric ineffectively.
ref: 2009 August, Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 48:
text: In spite of wearing the largest size of body armor available, her ample breasts were simply much too big, and deliciously muffined over the top.
ref: 2009 December, James Axler [house name; Nick Pollotta], “Prologue”, in Time Castaways (Deathlands), Worldwide Library, page 16:
text: Baby fat muffined over the top of Rebecca’s jeans.
ref: 2013, E[lizabeth] F[rancine] Winters, chapter 15, in Sharks and Minnows (book one of The Jolie Chronicles), Kenspeckle Productions, LLC, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Allan Grace was lean, but his neck muffined out over the crisp white collar.
ref: 2014, Terry Dowling, “The Four Darks”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror, ChiZine Publications, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Beers rested on bellies that muffined over shorts.
ref: 2014, David Mason, Walk Across Australia: The First Solo Crossing, Rosenberg Publishing, →ISBN:
text: It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.
ref: 2016, Adam Biles, Feeding Time, Galley Beggar Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To become like a muffin; to increase in size.
examples: text: Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be!
ref: 1920, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 418:
text: WE HAVE too many raisins in our cake; / Our bread is muffined.
ref: 1924, Edmund Vance Cooke, “Fat”, in Companionable Poems, page 183:
text: Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.
ref: 1944, Harper’s Bazaar, page 63:
text: Muffined Eggs with Mushrooms
ref: 1990, Caleb Pirtle, The Land Where We Belong, Leisure Time Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: To make like a muffin.