Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, cup-shaped quick bread, often sweetened.
- noun An English muffin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light round spongy cake, the English variety of which is usually eaten toasted and buttered.
- noun A small earthen plate.
- noun One who is given to muffing or acting clumsily in playing a game, but more particularly one who in cricket or base-ball fails to retain hold on a ball which comes into his hands. See
muff , n., 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK a type of
flattish bun, usually cut in twohorizontally ,toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten - noun especially US A type of rich
individual cake containingchocolate chips ,blueberries or some other flavouring. - noun computing a
mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocolanalogous to thecookie mechanism and which permits a program running in abrowser to perform operations on a client machine - noun slang a term of endearment
- noun sexual slang a
vulva - noun baseball, slang a less
talented player - noun slang a charming, attractive young man
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The main difference between a cupcake and a muffin is a light, open crumb, Flo Braker, expert baker and author of the new and long-awaited Baking for All Occasions, told me.
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The combination worked just as well as in the original bar, although, of course, the muffin is a bit less chocolatey than the bar of chocolate itself.
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The main difference between a cupcake and a muffin is a light, open crumb, Flo Braker, expert baker and author of the new and long-awaited Baking for All Occasions, told me.
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The combination worked just as well as in the original bar, although, of course, the muffin is a bit less chocolatey than the bar of chocolate itself.
Baking Bites » Print » Blueberry Milk Chocolate Muffins 2009
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I loved the Season 7 Curb Your Enthusiasm episode entitled “The Bare Midriff,” in which a woman named Maureen goes around the office in a tiny shirt that reveals her whole stomach—and what they call a muffin top.
Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010
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I loved the Season 7 Curb Your Enthusiasm episode entitled “The Bare Midriff,” in which a woman named Maureen goes around the office in a tiny shirt that reveals her whole stomach—and what they call a muffin top.
Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010
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I loved the Season 7 Curb Your Enthusiasm episode entitled “The Bare Midriff,” in which a woman named Maureen goes around the office in a tiny shirt that reveals her whole stomach—and what they call a muffin top.
Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010
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SqPixels of Experiments wants to see what you call a muffin and has therefore started a new event called Muffin Monday.
Muffin Mania Brilynn 2007
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SqPixels of Experiments wants to see what you call a muffin and has therefore started a new event called Muffin Monday.
Archive 2007-02-01 Brilynn 2007
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Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top" - extra rolls of waistline flab.
News 2011
rolig commented on the word muffin
Muffin, the first of the name in our household (see Muffin II for his successor), was with us for only a few years. I was seven when we adopted him as a kitten, and he died after sustaining injuries in a road accident (my grandmother suspected the culprit was a motorcyclist) when he was only three. My memories of Muffin are vague, but I know I loved him and was deeply distressed by his passing. He inadvertantly challenged my young belief in the Judeo-Christian god, as taught by my Presbyterian Sunday School, but that is another story.
March 12, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word muffin
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who know me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy.Besides, I am rather fond of muffins.
-Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
July 29, 2009