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muffin|ˈmʌfɪn|
Also 8 muffin; dial. 8 moofin, 9 mowffin, moufin.
[Of obscure origin; but perh. in some way connected with OF. moufflet soft (said of bread), also used subst., soft bread.]
1. a. dial. (See quots. 1703, 1888.) b. A light, flat, circular, spongy cake, eaten toasted and buttered at breakfast or tea.
1703Thoresby Let. to Ray Philos. Lett. (1718) 332 A Moofin, a Wheat Cake bak'd upon a Bake-stone over the Fire, as Oat-cakes. 1747H. Glasse Cookery xvii. 151 To make Muffings and Oat-Cakes. 1766[Anstey] Bath Guide xiii. 105, I freely will own I the Muffins preferr'd To all the genteel Conversation I heard. 1782Wolcot (P. Pindar) Odes R. Acad. xiv, A face..That boasts no more expression than a muffin. 1802Lamb Let. to Coleridge 11 Oct., We..can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins, or over a pipe. 1886J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 120, I eat a large plateful of hot buttered muffins about an hour beforehand. 1888J. Fothergill Lasses of Leverhouse xix. 179 ‘Mowffin’, a generic name for tea bread in all its varieties.
2. A kind of flat earthenware or china plate.
1864in Webster. 1885C. Mackeson in Brit. Alm. Comp. 94 In some parts of the country identical titles are very differently applied. Among the double meanings..[are] Muffin Maker for a maker of tea-cakes or the maker of a muffin in China manufacture.
3. slang and colloq.
a. = muff n.4 1. ? Obs.
b. One who habitually ‘muffs’ a catch or ball. (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895.)
1830W. T. Moncrieff Hrt. of Lond. ii. i, A visitor? hurrah! some muffin, I daresay—he must pay his footing.
4. Canadian slang. (See quot. 1856.)
1856I. L. Bird Englishw. Amer. 260 Every unmarried gentleman, who chooses to do so, selects a young lady to be his companion in the numerous amusements of the season..when she acquiesces, [she] is called a ‘muffin’. 1904A. Griffiths 50 Yrs. Pub. Serv. iv. 52 A pleasant tête-a-tête drive for many miles..with your ‘muffin’ by your side.
5. attrib. and Comb., as muffin-dish, muffin-maker, muffin-plate; muffin-bell, the bell rung by a seller of muffins; muffin-cap, a flat woollen cap worn by charity-school boys, etc.; muffin-countenance, -face slang, an expressionless countenance; so muffin-faced a. (see also quot. 1823); muffin-fight colloq. = muffin-worry; muffin-head dial., a blockhead; muffin-man, a man who sells muffins; muffin-ring, muffin-tin, ‘a ring, usually of tinned iron, in which muffins are cooked’ (Worcester 1860); muffin-worry colloq., a tea-party.
1840Hood Up Rhine 89 By and by a bell rang, and that sent him into a fresh tantrum. ‘What..has a *muffin-bell to do with religion?’
1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Spectre of Tapp., Mr. Peters..had received a liberal education at a charity-school, and was apt to recur to the days of his *muffin-cap and leathers.
1823Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1825) 53 The *muffin countenance of the renowned Sancho Panza.
1895Army & Navy Price List 15 Sept. 824 *Muffin Dish and Cover.
1777I. Jackman All World's a Stage i. ii, Who is that gentleman?.. Has he a *muffin-face?
1823‘J. Bee’ Dict. Turf, *Muffin-faced, one who has large protruding muscles on his phiz, which is pale withal, is ‘a muffin-fac'd son of a ―. 1837Syd. Smith Let. to Archd. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 277/1 His little muffin-faced son.
1887Old Man's Favour I. ii. i. 198 A rare dinner, an occasional *muffin-fight.
1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve i. v, Yo good-for-nowt, yo *muffin-yed, yo donkey!
1790Bystander 382 The Italian *muffin-maker.
1810Splendid Follies II. 6 A *muffin-man.
1895Army & Navy Price List 15 Sept. 292/2 Hot Water *Muffin-Plate and Cover.
1860Hotten's Slang Dict. (ed. 2), *Muffin-worry, an old ladies' tea party. 1877‘Ouida’ Puck xvi, Day before yesterday she came to muffin-worry in Fred. Orford's rooms.
Add:[1.] [b.] For def. read: A flat, circular cake made from yeast dough cooked on an iron hotplate, and eaten toasted and buttered at breakfast or tea.
1956Spry & Hume Cookery Bk. 772, I had some good American books and found lots of recipes made with all manner of ingredients, nuts and fruit, eggs and sugar, but they were not at all what I wanted. I was after the muffin of the muffin-man, the floury, yeasty affair that has to be properly toasted and buttered before it is eaten. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 270/1 Muffins are made with milk, butter, flour and yeast and are toasted, buttered and served hot.
c. N. Amer. (a) A small, spongy cake made with eggs and baking powder, cooked in a cup-shaped container; (b) English muffin = sense 1b above.
a1835A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 36 Waffles were handed to Ned, and he took one:..and so on of muffins, rolls and corn bread. 1887Century Mag. Nov. 16/2 A procession of little darkies like an antique frieze was seen to pass and repass, supporting plates of hot batter-cakes, muffins, Sally Lunns, rice waffles. 1986Christian Science Monitor 15 Jan. 27/2 Those first, delicious, baking powder muffins were only the beginning of my education about one of the most comforting of American foods.
b1896R. Baxter Receipt Bk. for Bakers 21 (heading) English muffins. Ibid. 22 These are the genuine English Muffins that were introduced into Chicago during the World's Fair. 1930F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. (rev. ed.) iv. 55 (caption) Serve toasted English Muffins very hot. 1972Guardian 21 Jan. 9/4 The muffin..had to take on the prefix ‘English’ to avoid getting mixed up with a quite different type of small hot bread also known in America as a muffin—also occasionally called a gem. 1984J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists ix. 56 English muffins, his favorite, were on sale this week. |