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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, cup-shaped quick bread, often sweetened.
  2. n. An English muffin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A light round spongy cake, the English variety of which is usually eaten toasted and buttered.
  2. n. A small earthen plate.
  3. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten
  2. n. especially US A type of rich individual cake containing chocolate chips, blueberries or some other flavouring.
  3. n. computing 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
  4. n. slang a term of endearment
  5. n. sexual slang a vulva
  6. n. baseball, slang a less talented player
  7. n. slang a charming, attractive young man

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

Etymologies

  1. The origin is unknown. (Wiktionary)
  2. Possibly from Low German Muffen, pl. of Muffe, small cake, from Middle Low German. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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.”

    Not So Guilty Pleasure

  • “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.”

    Simon & Schuster: Gunn’s Golden Rules

  • “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

  • “Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top" - extra rolls of waistline flab.”

    News

  • “If the muffin is individually wrapped, then it is always taxable, unless you also buy another piece of prepared food or beverage and the subtotal is less than $4CDN .....”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why NFIB Is Challenging ObamaCare

  • “I'm so impressed that this low-fat muffin is now a go-to muffin.”

    Low-Fat Blueberry Muffins

  • “These molds are pretty pricey, but luckily the cannele can be baked in muffin cups, too.”

    Homemade Canneles | Baking Bites

  • “The muffins get a lot of moisture from Greek yogurt, which is used instead of buttermilk or sour cream (which appear frequently in muffin recipes).”

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites

  • “The Lemon Cheesecake Cupcakes from Cafe Fernando are individual cheesecakes baked in muffin cups.”

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites

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hypernyms (1)

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  1. quick bread

hyponyms (3)

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  1. corn muffin
  1. bran muffin
  1. popover

same context (20)

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  1. pancake
  2. biscuit
  3. oatmeal
  4. waffle
  1. croissant
  2. toast
  3. pudding
  4. marmalade
  1. porridge
  2. bacon
  3. bun
  4. jelly
  1. cocoa
  2. cake
  3. fritter
  4. scone
  1. sandwich
  2. cracker
  3. syrup
  4. custard

rhymes (1)

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  1. toughen

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  1. popover
  2. bran muffin
  3. corn muffin
  4. Sally Lunn
  1. crumpet
  2. oven-cake
  3. pikelet
  4. muffin
  1. gem
  2. mumiacolumns-subscribe@topica
  3. y530
  4. schnecken
  1. sticky bun
  2. cupcake
  3. eggs benedict
  4. English muffin
  1. honey bun
  2. caramel bun
  3. clover-leaf roll
  4. manchet

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  • PossibleUnderscore 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 Jul 29, 2009

  • rolig 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. Mar 12, 2009

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