muffin man

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noun

British (formerly) an itinerant seller of muffins

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Words nearby muffin man

MUF, muff, muff glass, muffin, muffineer, muffin man, muffin stand, muffin top, muffle, muffle color, muffler

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How to use muffin man in a sentence

Even the muffin man's bell, so welcome in the winter afternoon's gloom, seems now more seldom heard.
Highways and Byways in London|Mrs. E. T. Cook.
It was the muffin man going his constant and monotonous rounds.
The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer|Richard Clynton
A muffin man rang his bell, a small boy clattered his stick against the area bailing.
The Great Prince Shan|E. Phillips Oppenheim
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.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing|Juliana Horatia Ewing

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.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448|Various