muffin

See also: Muffin

English

Etymology

From earlier moofin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Low German muffen, plural of muffe (“small cake”), or perhaps a diminutive of muffe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌfɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌfɪn

Noun

muffin (plural muffins)

1. (British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten.
2. (US) A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
3. (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
4. (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.
5. (slang) Term of endearment.

   I love you, muffin!

6. (sexual slang) A vulva.
7. (baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
8. (slang) A charming, attractive young man. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
9. (dated) A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.

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

See also

• (term of endearment, small bread): cupcake

Translations

individual cake

• Bulgarian: мъ̀фин m (mǎ̀fin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn), 玛芬 (mǎfēn)

• Danish: muffin c
• Dutch: muffin (nl)
• Esperanto: mafino, mufino
• Finnish: muffini (fi)
• French: muffin (fr) m
• German: Muffin (de) m
• Hebrew: מופין m (mufin), מאפין m (mafin)
• Hungarian: muffin (hu)
• Icelandic: múffa f
• Italian: muffin m
• Japanese: マフィン (mafin)
• Kannada: ಮಫಿನ್ (maphin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 머핀 (meopin)
• Malay: mufin, baulu
• Maori: komeke
• Marathi: मफिन n (mafin)
• Norwegian: muffin, muffins (no) m
• Persian: مافین (mâfin)
• Polish: muffin (pl)
• Portuguese: queque (pt) m, bolo inglês m, muffin m
• Romanian: brioșă (ro) f
• Russian: кекс (ru) m (keks), ма́ффин (ru) m (máffin)
• Spanish: muffin m, magdalena (es) f
• Swedish: muffins (sv) c or n
• Telugu: మఫిన్ (te) (maphin)
• Ukrainian: ма́фін m (máfin)

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Danish

Etymology

From English muffin.

Noun

muffin c (singular definite muffinen, plural indefinite muffins)

1. muffin (cake)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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French

Etymology

From English muffin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœ.fin/

  • Audio (France):

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• IPA^(key): /mɔ.fin/, /mɔ.fœn/

  • Audio (Quebec):

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Noun

muffin m (plural muffins)

1. muffin

Further reading

• “muffin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English muffin.

Noun

muffin m (plural s)

1. muffin (type of small cake)

Synonyms

• queque, bolo inglês