muffin man

noun

Even the muffin man's bell, so welcome in the winter afternoon's gloom, seems now more seldom heard.

It was the muffin man going his constant and monotonous rounds.

A muffin man rang his bell, a small boy clattered his stick against the area bailing.

If one of the neighbours changed his milkman, or there came so much as a new muffin man to the square, we were all agog.

They all go in at Smith's, where the muffin-man went in about half an hour before, and left half his stock behind him.

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