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muf·fin

 (mŭf′ĭn)
n.
1. A small, cup-shaped quick bread, often sweetened.
2. An English muffin.

[Possibly from Low German Muffen, pl. of Muffe, small cake, from Middle Low German.]
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muffin

(ˈmʌfɪn)
n
(Cookery) Brit a thick round baked yeast roll, usually toasted and served with butter. US and Canadian term: English muffin
[C18: perhaps from Low German muffen, cakes]
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muf•fin

(ˈmʌf ɪn)

n.
1. a small quick bread made with flour or cornmeal, eggs, milk, etc., and baked in a pan containing a series of cuplike molds.
[1695–1705; orig. uncertain]
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muffin

English muffin
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.muffin - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped panmuffin - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking
bran muffin - muffin containing bran
corn muffin - cornbread muffin
popover - light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup
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Translations
فَطيرَة زُبْدَه
druh vdolečku
muffin
lítil formkaka
sviestinė bandelė
apaļa bulciņa
muffin
ufak yuvarlak ekmek

muffin

[ˈmʌfɪn] N
1. (= cake) → magdalena f (generalmente con sabor a chocolate o con trocitos de fruta)
2. (eaten with butter) (Brit) → mollete m (US) especie de pan dulcebollo m
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muffin

n
Muffin m, kleiner, in Förmchen gebackener Kuchen
(Brit) weiches, flaches Milchbrötchen, meist warm gegessen
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muffin

(ˈmafin) noun
a type of round, flat cake eaten hot with butter.
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References in classic literature ?
The second resolution, which recognised the expediency of immediately abolishing 'all muffin (or crumpet) sellers, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,' was moved by a grievous gentleman of semi-clerical appearance, who went at once into such deep pathetics, that he knocked the first speaker clean out of the course in no time.
Nancy left the room precipitately, though to do so she had to carry out the hot muffins she had just brought in.
"Yes," said Dab-Dab, who was toasting muffins for his tea, "it is indeed!"
If I want to write any thing very pathetic--I mean, if I want to try to write anything very pathetic--I eat a large plateful of hot buttered muffins about an hour beforehand, and then by the time I sit down to my work a feeling of unutterable melancholy has come over me.
I remember eating muffins at the time, with marmalade.
They sat before a bright fire, with a small low table between them; and unless the fragrance of hot tea and muffins lingered longer in that room than in most others, the table had seen service very lately.
And here comes in the stout head waiter, puffing under a tray of hot viands--kidneys and a steak, transparent rashers and poached eggs, buttered toast and muffins, coffee and tea, all smoking hot.
They patted it with their little soft paws --"Shall we make dear little muffins?" said Mittens to Moppet
He was fond of inviting them to tea; and, though vowing they never got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fashion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his voracious appetite to tapeworms, they accepted his invitations with real pleasure.
The subject was revived in aunt and uncle Glegg's presence, over the tea and muffins.
I wish you could ha' seen the shepherd walkin' into the ham and muffins. I never see such a chap to eat and drink-- never.
"She may also eat my wheelbarrow," added a pleasant looking Muffin. "It's made of nabiscos with a zuzu wheel."