muffin
Pluralmuffins
Verbmuffins, muffining, muffined
Pluralmuffins
Formsmuffins, muffining, muffined
- 1A small, round baked good, often made with cornbread or banana bread, usually eaten for breakfast.
Like a cupcake, but plainer and eaten for breakfast instead of dessert.
She grabbed a blueberry muffin on her way to work.
The bakery sells corn muffins every morning.
- 2A flat, round bread roll, cut in half, toasted, and spread with butter before you eat it.
Like a round bread roll you toast and butter.
She toasted a muffin and spread it thickly with butter for breakfast.
We had warm muffins with jam at the tea shop.
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- 6A weak player on a team, especially one who keeps dropping the ball.
Like the kid always picked last for a team.
Don't pass to him, he's a total muffin.
The team's muffins cost them the game.
Similarduffer, butterfingers, bungler
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- 7A weak hockey shot where the puck moves slowly.
Like a slow, easy throw anyone could catch.
His shot was just a muffin the goalie caught easily.
She fired a few muffins that barely reached the net.
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- 8A charming, good-looking young man.
Like calling a young man very handsome and sweet.
Everyone agreed the new waiter was a real muffin.
She introduced a cheerful group of muffins from her class.
Similarhunk, dreamboat, heartthrob
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- 10To eat muffins.
They muffined happily all through the morning.
We like to muffin on lazy Sundays.
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- 11To give muffins to someone to eat.
She muffined the kids before school.
Don't muffin the dog too often.
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- 12To shape something so it looks like a muffin.
The baker muffined the batter into neat rounds.
You can muffin the dough with a special pan.
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- 13A young woman who often went out with the same man during a social season.
Like a steady date for the whole season.
She was his muffin for the whole season that year.
I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed.
1854, Margaret Oliphant, quoting Laurence OliphantHere, muffin means a young woman who was a man's regular partner for the season.Note
- 14A small plate, smaller than a side plate.
Like a tiny plate for small snacks.
She set a muffin beside each teacup.
The cupboard held a stack of dusty muffins.
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- 15A tool in a Java system, like a cookie, that lets a web program work on your computer.
Like a cookie that a website saves on your computer.
The app saved your settings using a muffin.
Old Java programs used muffins to store data on your computer.
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- 16Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN. It means the same word, just written with different capital letters.
(The package may also be “muffined” by those users who wish to take advantage of the greater disk capacity available using the new Apple DOS 3.3).
1981, Joel Pitt, “InfoWorld Software Review: Micro-Painter: Apple Coloring Program”Here, muffined means changed over to work with the newer DOS 3.3 disk system.Print II is supplied on a DOS 3.2 disk (it can be muffined to DOS 3.3 ), which contains programs to customize Print II for specific memory configurations and several simple demonstration programs.
1982, MicrocomputingHere, muffined means changed over to work with the newer DOS 3.3 disk system.Note
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Origin
From an earlier word "moofin," probably a small-size form of a Low German word "Muffe," meaning "small cake."