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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.
Origin of muffin First recorded in 1695–1705; origin uncertain
Words nearby muffin muesli bar, muezzin, MUF, muff, muff glass, muffin , muffineer, muffin man, muffin stand, muffin top, muffle
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Example sentences from the Web for muffin None, however, rival “Muffin Top” for sheer absurdity—and genius.
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They adored their “Muffie,” as they called her, short for “Muffin .”
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Manhattan is denser than an English muffin , but America is filled with emptiness.
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Ideal Meal: Edamame and pomegranate seeds (wonderful for energy), paired with a whole-grain English muffin .
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And all of them dwarfed the FDA's dainty definition of a muffin serving (two ounces).
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Mary, who was toasting a muffin to hotter crispness before the fire, turned a thin, flushed face at the announcement.
The Confounding of Camelia | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Bake in greased shallow pan or muffin tins in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
New Royal Cook Book | Anonymous
Blue Crest had a muffin with strawberry jam on it, and she perched on the end of her plate and pecked away in perfect delight.
Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday | Frances Hodgson Burnett
If it had been a biscuit, it would not have mattered; but muffin and pudder.
A Book about Doctors | John Cordy Jeaffreson
I saw the withered old hand disappear with a muffin in it in the direction of the old mouth, and at this point I entered.
My Doggie and I | R.M. Ballantyne
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British Dictionary definitions for muffin 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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