muffin
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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a thick round baked yeast roll, usually toasted and served with butter
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a small cup-shaped sweet bread roll, usually eaten hot with butter
Etymology
Origin of muffin
First recorded in 1695–1705; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Historically, it was basically a couple of flavors of muffin tops.
“Yes. That’s where Twitch lives, and she is an excellent baker of muffins and other sweet goods. A polar bear such as myself likes eating tasty delicious things as often as I can.”
From Literature
After all, it’s one thing to ride your bike on your own or in a training group, stopping every 30K to eat a muffin and tell lies about your fondo results.
Its “Country Vegetable Plate” — a choose-your-own adventure of classic sides with biscuits or corn muffins — is proof that pleasure need not center a protein.
From Salon
The last thing I ate was a blueberry muffin on the plane.
From Literature
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