muf·fin

(mŭf′ĭn)

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)

(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]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

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.

2. English muffin.

[1695–1705; orig. uncertain]

muffin

English muffin

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

muffin - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

gem

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

Translations

فَطيرَة زُبْدَه

druh vdolečku

muffin

Muffin

muffin

lítil formkaka

focaccia

sviestinė bandelė

apaļa bulciņa

liten kake muffinmuffins

muffin

ufak yuvarlak ekmek

松饼

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 dulce → bollo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

muffin

→ Muffin m, kleiner, in Förmchen gebackener Kuchen

(Brit) weiches, flaches Milchbrötchen, meist warm gegessen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

muffin

(ˈmafin) noun

a type of round, flat cake eaten hot with butter.

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"United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

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"She may also eat my wheelbarrow," added a pleasant looking Muffin. "It's made of nabiscos with a zuzu wheel."

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'My tea is drawing, and my muffin is on the hob, Mr Wegg; will you partake?'

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"Coffee, please," says Tom, with his mouth full of muffin and kidney.

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A teaboard, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks (including carvers), spoons (various), saltcellars, a meek little muffin confined with the utmost precaution under a strong iron cover, Moses in the bullrushes typified by a soft bit of butter in a quantity of parsley, a pale loaf with a powdered head, two proof impressions of the bars of the kitchen fire-place on triangular bits of bread, and ultimately a fat family urn: which the waiter staggered in with, expressing in his countenance burden and suffering.

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Smart maids, with the rosiest children I ever saw, handsome girls, looking half asleep, dandies in queer English hats and lavender kids lounging about, and tall soldiers, in short red jackets and muffin caps stuck on one side, looking so funny I longed to sketch them.

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Nancy left the room precipitately, though to do so she had to carry out the hot muffins she had just brought in.

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"Yes," said Dab-Dab, who was toasting muffins for his tea, "it is indeed!"

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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.

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I remember eating muffins at the time, with marmalade.

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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.

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They patted it with their little soft paws --"Shall we make dear little muffins?" said Mittens to Moppet

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