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muffin.

A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmʌf.ɪn/
  1. A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.

    UK
  2. A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).

  3. Term of endearment.

    colloquial · endearing
    I love you, muffin!
  4. The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.

    slang · vulgar
  5. A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

    slang
  6. A charming, attractive young man.

  7. A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.

    dated
  8. A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.

    Northern-England · UK · dialectal
  9. A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.

    slang
  10. A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season.

    Canada · archaic · slang
  11. A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.

Where this word comes from

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff.

verb/ˈmʌf.ɪn/
  1. To eat muffins.

    intransitive
  2. To feed muffins to.

    transitive
  3. To become like a muffin; to increase in size.

    intransitive
  4. To make like a muffin.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff.

verb/ˈmʌf.ɪn/
  1. Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN.

    alt-of · historical · transitive
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