muffineer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]muffineer (plural muffineers)
- A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins. [from 18th c.]
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII:
- He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
- 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small antique silverware:
- The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.
- 2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England:
- The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.
- (obsolete) A dish for keeping muffins hot. [19th c.]