muffin
Americannoun
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an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan muffin pan containing a series of cuplike forms.
noun
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a thick round baked yeast roll, usually toasted and served with butter
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a small cup-shaped sweet bread roll, usually eaten hot with butter
Etymology
Origin of muffin
First recorded in 1695–1705; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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We’d get muffins or donuts and eat them in bed and watch as much TV as I wanted, and we could stay in our pajamas all day.
From Literature
Try brown-butter blueberry muffins for something gently sweet, or use this flexible formula for pillowy savory muffins that can lean breakfast or lunch.
From Salon
Finally, a muffin that feels like a quiet triumph of patience, experimentation, and a little alchemy.
From Salon
Some dishes are forever trapped in the wrong season, and the blueberry muffin has long been one of them for me; an eternal July snack slathered in nostalgia and sunshine.
From Salon
Gone are the sweet potatoes, pecan pie and corn muffins.
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