muffin-warm
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Adjective[edit]
- warm as a freshly baked muffin
- 1939 October 15, “Hess Brothers”, in The Morning Call (advertisement), Allentown, Pennsylvania, page 3:
- A thick napped 4 pound muffin-warm blanket that moths will avoid like moth balls for the next five years… it's been mothproof for that long!
- 2005 October 10, Jeffrey Eugenides, “Early Music”, in The New Yorker:
- The selling point (still mainly theoretical) was that you could put these mice in the microwave and they would come out muffin-warm and smelling like potpourri.
- 2014, Carolyn Chute, Treat us like dogs and we will become wolves, Grove/Atlantic:
- At breakfast the next morning in the muffin-warm, coffee-hot, kazoo-zippy, baby-back-thumping, flame flickering winter kitchen.