muffin

[ muhf-in ]

/ ˈmʌf ɪn /

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noun

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.

English muffin.

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Origin of muffin

First recorded in 1695–1705; origin uncertain

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How to use muffin in a sentence

She has baked delicious blueberry muffins for me to eat during this interview.
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This past weekend, my 5-year-old boy and I made blueberry muffins from scratch.
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Peel it, chop it, steam or boil it and turn it into muffins, or pie, or biscuits or a curry or soup.
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“Hey, muffins,” he calls to his children, with a “wince of mortification” at the whole scene.
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And if you love the muffins at Starbucks, boy, does that turn out to be alarming news.
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The boys were superintending the baking of a pan of muffins in a sheet-iron oven, while two swinging-lanterns gave them light.
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Nor had she said very much more as we had eaten the hot muffins and drunk the tea Kitty had provided.
In Accordance with the Evidence|Oliver Onions
As a specimen of his art, we had him make muffins and tea that evening.
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For a long time I thought it was going to be all tea and muffins and pianoforte.
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Mrs. Miller makes the best muffins I ever tasted, and she had some ready mixed, and nothing to do but put them on the griddle.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863|Various

British Dictionary definitions for muffin

muffin

/ (ˈmʌfɪn) /

noun

British a thick round baked yeast roll, usually toasted and served with butter

US and Canadian a small cup-shaped sweet bread roll, usually eaten hot with butter

Word Origin for muffin

C18: perhaps from Low German muffen, cakes

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