muffin man

noun

1. (formerly) an itinerant seller of muffins

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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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.

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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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