Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish in which to serve toasted muffins, crumpets, etc. so arranged as to keep them hot.
- noun A vessel of metal with a perforated cover, used to sprinkle sugar or salt on muffins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dish for keeping muffins hot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dish for keepingmuffins hot.
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Examples
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With regard to the expense of this removal, he would say, at a rough calculation, that two or three silver tea or coffee – pots, with something additional for drink (such as a muffineer, or toast – rack), would more than cover it.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant.
Flush: a biography 2004
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Ill trouble you for the muffineer, then, Mr. Glegg, said Mrs. G., if I may be so bold to interrupt your joking.
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With regard to the expense of this removal, he would say, at a rough calculation, that two or three silver tea or coffee-pots, with something additional for drink (such as a muffineer, or toast - rack), would more than cover it.
Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892
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Here let me give the traveller a hint: never venture in out of-the-way parts of France without a well-filled muffineer and pepper-box; but for our dry clean pepper and salt brought from England, even the eggs would have been swallowed with a painful effort.
The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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This afternoon a parcel was brought by a brother from London, containing a silver cream jug, a pair of gilt earrings, a gold ring, 2 bracelets, and a muffineer.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part George M��ller 1851
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"I'll trouble you for the muffineer, then, Mr. Glegg," said Mr.. G.,
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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With regard to the expense of this removal, he would say, at a rough calculation, that two or three silver tea or coffee-pots, with something additional for drink (such as a muffineer, or toast-rack), would more than cover it.
Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens 1841
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With regard to the expense of this removal, he would say, at a rough calculation, that two or three silver tea or coffee-pots, with something additional for drink (such as a muffineer, or toast-rack), would more than cover it.
Barnaby Rudge 1840
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He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825
yarb commented on the word muffineer
He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, ch. 8
September 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word muffineer
Not clear what it is from that citation but it's intriguing.
September 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word muffineer
"A caster for sprinkling sugar or other condiments on food," according to a few dictionaries.
Neat word. "Salt shaker" sounds pedestrian by comparison. :-)
September 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word muffineer
I want it to mean a tiny person who pops out of your muffin just as you're about to take a bite.
September 3, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word muffineer
I want it to mean a highly educated, incredibly skilled scientist who makes the finest muffins ever created in the history of the world, by standing on the shoulders of giants and using lots of complicated and esoteric machinery that makes cool whirring and beeping noises.
Edit: and blinking lights. I want it to include blinking lights.
September 4, 2008
whichbe commented on the word muffineer
Genetically Muffineered Object.
September 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word muffineer
I want what yarb and c_b want, except that the tiny scientist has to wave a pennant.
September 4, 2008
zuccaciyecioglu commented on the word muffineer
The scientist should also wear orange pants. Mmmmm. Muffins.
September 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word muffineer
Hey, is anyone else seeing an ad for bacon salt on this page?
Bacon salt?
September 25, 2008
bilby commented on the word muffineer
Adblock.
September 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word muffineer
Me too, but somehow it beat it. Now it's telling me to unleash my inner bacon.
I don't have an inner bacon. I'm sure of it.
September 25, 2008
bilby commented on the word muffineer
*sniffs*
September 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word muffineer
"Everything should taste like bacon."
Really?! That statement is so Palin-esque, I don't know what to do with it.
September 25, 2008
trivet commented on the word muffineer
Kosher bacon salt? *boggles*
September 25, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word muffineer
I think it would be more Palin-esque to say that everything should taste like spam.
September 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word muffineer
I guess any statement beginning with "everything should..." is Palin-esque.
September 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word muffineer
We scared it away. Now there's an ad for sugar bowls.
September 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word muffineer
Now there's an ad for Sugar Daddys.
September 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the word muffineer
Now it's gone.
September 26, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word muffineer
It's back!
October 16, 2008
grant_barrett commented on the word muffineer
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009