muffin

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
Eggs and a whole grain English muffin split with the toddler Amanda: Aw, Roni.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

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

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Newspaper subscribers are unpredictable Helping himself to a third mini-muffin, Qwilleran was glad he had eaten a substantial breakfast at the Five Points Cafe. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • The attitudinal blonde simply disappeared inside to place Tess's usual order—a chocolate-pumpkin muffin, a latte, and two large bowls of water. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
  • Burnside, with no legs to speak of, made a lump under the sheet like a muffin or a dumpling. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • While blueberry muffins are without question delicious and a relatively "tough" muffin, any state that wastes legislative money in order to make a muffin choice official doesn't deserve any success in a sport like football. —  FanHouse
  • I used to be the type of person who would get upset if there was some type of small muffin, and it would just give me anxiety because it wasn't a large.
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 106 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Possibly from Low German Muffen, pl. of Muffe, small cake, from Middle Low German.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. Perhaps from muff.
  2. muff, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈməfɪn/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

waterfalls · espionage · Objective · Doubtfire · fluticasone

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten