Muffin Definition

mŭfĭn

muffins

noun

muffins

A quick bread made with eggs, baked in a small cup-shaped mold.

Webster's New World

An English muffin.

American Heritage

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

Wiktionary

(especially US) A type of rich individual cake containing chocolate chips, blueberries or some other flavouring.

Wiktionary

(computing) 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.

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Other Word Forms of Muffin

Noun

Singular:

muffin

Plural:

muffins

Origin of Muffin

Possibly from Low German Muffen pl. of Muffe small cake from Middle Low German

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
The origin is unknown.

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