MUFFIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muffin mean? 

• MUFFIN (noun)
  The noun MUFFIN has 1 sense:

1. a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

  Familiarity information: MUFFIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUFFIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

gem; muffin

Hypernyms ("muffin" is a kind of...):

quick bread (breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muffin"):

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)

 Context examples 

The muffin last night—if it had been handed round once, I think it would have been enough.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My room was at the top of the house, at the back: a close chamber; stencilled all over with an ornament which my young imagination represented as a blue muffin; and very scantily furnished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She led the way into a cosy room—the same which we had caught a glimpse of when last we came—and there, in the middle, was a table with white napery, and shining glass, and gleaming china, and red-cheeked apples piled upon a centre-dish, and a great plateful of smoking muffins which the cross-faced maid had just carried in.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With such rivals for the notice of the fair as Mr. Wickham and the officers, Mr. Collins seemed to sink into insignificance; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing; but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)