muffin
pronunciation
How to pronounce muffin in British English:
UK [ˈmʌfɪn]
How to pronounce muffin in American English:
US [ˈmʌfɪn]
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- Noun:
- a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
Word Origin
- muffin (n.)
- "light, small cake made with eggs," 1703, moofin, possibly from Low German muffen, plural of muffe "small cake;" or somehow connected with Old French moflet "soft, tender" (said of bread). Muffin top in reference to waistline bulge over tight, low jeans is attested by 2005, from resemblance to baked muffins from a tin.
Example
- 1. Or perhaps it wasn 't the muffin at all .
- 2. Said he who caught the mouse to him who found the muffin .
- 3. Toast one-half of a whole-wheat english muffin .
- 4. Give me a 25-cent box of blueberry muffin mix and I was a happy camper .
- 5. Flotsam and jetsam , odds and sods , 10 cents off flako corn muffin mix .