muffin

See also Muffin

English

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmʌfɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌfɪn

Noun

muffin (plural muffins)

1. (UK) a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten
2. (especially US) A type of rich individual cake containing chocolate chips, blueberries or some other flavouring.
3. (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
4. (slang) a term of endearment
5. (sexual slang) a vulva
6. (baseball, slang) a less talented player
7. (slang) a charming, attractive young man

Quotations

computing term

• 2001: The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins." — JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001.

the vulva

• 1989: I wanna be stuffin’ Martha’s muffin!!!, — Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin.

Synonyms

• (flattish bun): English muffin (US)

Derived terms

• English muffin
• muffin cap
• muffin top

• muffin-warm
• muffiny
• stud muffin

Translations

individual cake

• Bulgarian: мъфин (măfin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瑪芬 (cmn), 玛芬 (cmn) (mǎfēn)

• Dutch: muffin (nl)
• Finnish: muffini (fi)
• French: muffin (fr) m
• German: Muffin (de)
• Hebrew: מופין (mufin); מאפין (mafin)
• Hungarian: muffin (hu)
• Italian: muffin (it) m
• Japanese: マフィン (ja) (mafin)

• Kannada: ಮಫಿನ್ (kn)
• Malay: muffin (ms)
• Marathi: मफिन (mr) (mafina) n
• Norwegian: muffin (no); muffins (no)
• Polish: muffin (pl)
• Romanian: brioșă (ro) f
• Russian: кекс (ru) (keks) m, маффин (ru) (máffin) m
• Spanish: muffin (es) m
• Swedish: muffins (sv)
• Telugu: మఫిన్ (te)
• Ukrainian: мафін (mafin)

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French

Etymology

From English muffin.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA: /mœ.fin/

  • Audio (France)

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• (Quebec) IPA: /mɔ.fin/, /mɔ.fœn/

  • Audio (Quebec)

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Noun

muffin m (plural muffins)

1. muffin