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  • adjective Without muffins.

Etymologies

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muffin +‎ -less

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Examples

  • This little affair concluded with satisfaction to all parties concerned, we rambled along the road, picking up the defaulting Harold by the way, muffinless now and in his right and social mind.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • Harold by the way, muffinless now and in his right and social mind.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • This was naturally pretty much as usual: and then, the poor man, incapable of retreating from his word of honor, committed suicide, -- having previously left a line for posterity to the effect (though I forget the expression), 'That a muffinless world was no world for him: better no life at all than a life dismantled of muffins.'

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • This was naturally pretty much as usual: and then, the poor man, incapable of retreating from his word of honor, committed suicide, -- having previously left a line for posterity to the effect (though I forget the expression), 'That a muffinless world was no world for him: better no life at all than a life dismantled of muffins.'

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

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