muffin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: muffins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muffins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: muffining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: muffined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: muffined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: […] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin.
We take a less gloomy view of our errors now our father confessor listens to us over his egg and coffee. We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.
It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin.
Little did poor Doctor Walker imagine as he sat at his breakfast-table next morning that the two sweet girls who sat on either side of him were deep in a conspiracy, and that he, munching innocently at his muffins, was the victim against whom their wiles were planned.
“A cup of tea and a muffin, please,” he ordered.
gloss: A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
pos: noun
examples: Aubrey got a bowl of soup, a cup of coffee, beef stew, and bran muffins, and took them to an empty seat by the window. He ate with one eye on the street.
Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs. Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins.
[…] to prepare sustenance like roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, vinaigrettes, guacamole, and bananabread muffins.
To start we'll go with an easy choice, a delicious chocolate muffin made with Mexican chocolate that goes well with ice cream or fruit […]
Dust the frosted muffins with cocoa powder. […] Store extras in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. The muffins can be frozen if unfrosted, but do not freeze the frosting.
Originally, I planned to write two sections here – one about how you get flat cupcakes and one about how to get tall, domed muffins. It quickly became clear that I was pretty much writing the same thing twice: factors that make cupcakes flat in opposite make muffins domed, unsurprisingly enough.
gloss: Term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
endearing
examples: I love you, muffin!
gloss: The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!
Is your muffin buttered?
She peeled off her clothes and stretched out on a towel. At first she lay still, then slowly Maddie slid a hand down her smooth tummy and into her muffin.
gloss: A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A charming, attractive young man.
pos: noun
gloss: A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
UK
dialectal
gloss: A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
archaic
slang
examples: I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed.
The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."
A long string of two-seated sleighs, a pleasant tête-à-tête drive for many miles snugly ensconced in the buffalo robes with your "muffin" by your side, a halt at some hospitable settler's, and an impromptu dance in his barn, wTith a return journey in the crisp moonlight air, left impressions that are still vivid. ¶ The "muffin" was a social institution of those days, which may or may not have survived. Every young swain by unwritten but acknowledged law was permitted to make his choice of a partner for the season, with whom he danced exclusively, and whom he drove in his sleigh and skated with hand in hand.
gloss: A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.
pos: noun
examples: The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."
gloss: To eat muffins.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.
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 …
HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?
We met about 8:00 A.M. for the usual continental breakfast – I am getting over muffined!
‘So what I can get you to celebrate. Bit of cake?’ ‘I’m all muffined up, thanks!’
Hehe, I've eaten three apple muffins this morning. I've all muffined out!
gloss: To feed muffins to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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!"
We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables.
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!
Grandma Bessie saw me and muffined me.
gloss: To become like a muffin; to increase in size.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
Baby fat muffined over the top of Rebecca’s jeans.
Allan Grace was lean, but his neck muffined out over the crisp white collar.
Beers rested on bellies that muffined over shorts.
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.
gloss: To make like a muffin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be!
WE HAVE too many raisins in our cake; / Our bread is muffined.
Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.
Muffined Eggs with Mushrooms
Derived words: American muffin
blueberry muffin baby
bruffin
buff the muffin
cruffin
duffin
English muffin
make muffins
McMuffin
meadow muffin
minimuffin
muffin cap
muffin choker
muffin cup
muffineer
muffinery
muffin-face
muffinless
muffin-less
muffin-like
muffinlike
muffin pan
muffin stand
muffin tin
muffin top
muffin-warm
muffin worry
muffiny
scuffin
sparklemuffin
stud muffin
studmuffin
whatever butters your muffin
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: muffin
lang: Arabic
word: مَفِن
roman: mafin
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 滿福堡 /满福堡
roman: mǎnfúbǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 英式瑪芬 /英式玛芬
roman: Yīngshì mǎfēn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 英式鬆餅 /英式松饼
roman: Yīngshì sōngbǐng
lang: Esperanto
word: mafino
lang: French
word: muffin
lang: German
word: Muffin
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: muffins
lang: Polish
word: proziak
lang: Portuguese
word: muffin