Muffin
noun
A small baked bread or cake, often sweet.
She enjoys a muffin with her coffee every morning.
Often appears as...
- blueberry muffin
- chocolate chip muffin
noun
Type of food similar to bread roll, but usually sweet and often containing fruit or nuts.
He baked banana muffins for breakfast.
Often appears as...
- bake muffins
- muffin tin
noun
A term of affection for a loved one.
Good morning, muffin, did you sleep well?
Often appears as...
- good morning muffin
- my muffin
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small baked bread or cake, often sweet.
She enjoys a muffin with her coffee every morning.
Often appears as...
- blueberry muffin
- chocolate chip muffin
noun
Type of food similar to bread roll, but usually sweet and often containing fruit or nuts.
He baked banana muffins for breakfast.
Often appears as...
- bake muffins
- muffin tin
noun
A term of affection for a loved one.
Good morning, muffin, did you sleep well?
Often appears as...
- good morning muffin
- my muffin
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variations
In the UK, 'muffin' can also refer to a flat, yeast-leavened bread similar to an English muffin.
Could you pass me a muffin to eat with my eggs?
Pro Tip 2/3Serving Occasions
Muffins are often served at breakfast or as a snack, not typically a full meal.
Let's grab a muffin before we start our hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Texture Expectations
A muffin should be soft and moist, with a slightly crispy top if freshly baked.
This blueberry muffin is perfectly moist with a deliciously crispy top.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variations
In the UK, 'muffin' can also refer to a flat, yeast-leavened bread similar to an English muffin.
Could you pass me a muffin to eat with my eggs?
Pro Tip 2/3Serving Occasions
Muffins are often served at breakfast or as a snack, not typically a full meal.
Let's grab a muffin before we start our hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Texture Expectations
A muffin should be soft and moist, with a slightly crispy top if freshly baked.
This blueberry muffin is perfectly moist with a deliciously crispy top.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Variations
In the UK, 'muffin' can also refer to a flat, yeast-leavened bread similar to an English muffin.
Could you pass me a muffin to eat with my eggs?
Pro Tip 2/3Serving Occasions
Muffins are often served at breakfast or as a snack, not typically a full meal.
Let's grab a muffin before we start our hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Texture Expectations
A muffin should be soft and moist, with a slightly crispy top if freshly baked.
This blueberry muffin is perfectly moist with a deliciously crispy top.
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How computers translate...
for each element of the target language. But this is where it gets tricky. The syntax of some languages allows words to be arranged in any order, while in others, doing so could make the muffin eat the child. Morphology can also pose a problem. Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more
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How optical illusions...
is the way your photo receptors and brain assemble visual information into the three-dimensional world you see around you, where edges should get extra attention because things with edges can help you or kill you. Look at that muffin pan again. You know what causes confusion here?
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Nicholas Christakis: The...
in the same given time period. There can be many mechanisms for this One possibility is that your friends say to you something like -- you know, they adopt a behavior that spreads to you -- like, they say, "Let's go have muffins and beer," which is a terrible combination.
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Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
and likely stale muffin that Ari produced for her but this morning with a matchstick in it for his birthday so I thought that fergus I should have been more aware of the Sun you see how Fergus moved to be with the Sun they're very important in summer look at this little
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The power of vulnerabilit...
that you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can't say, here's the bad stuff. Here's vulnerability, here's grief, here's shame, here's fear, here's disappointment. I don't want to feel these. I'm going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin.
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Steven Pinker: What our...
How are these construals reflected in language? Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb. So, when you think of the event as causing the muffin to go somewhere --
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12 truths I learned from...
God just means goodness. It's really not all that scary. It means the divine or a loving, animating intelligence, or, as we learned from the great "Deteriorata," "the cosmic muffin."
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The power of vulnerabilit...
muffin I don't want to feel these and I know that's it I know that's knowing laughter i hack into your lives for a living I know that's God
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Four Point Landings PIPE...
muffin here has had the excellent idea of jumping on top of the door nowhere else to go now what about the doorframe
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Hear the Untold Story of...
happy Joe I'm going to eat the muffin dough buck segi but Easter only under sub-servicer but
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How computers translate...
for each element of the target language. But this is where it gets tricky. The syntax of some languages allows words to be arranged in any order, while in others, doing so could make the muffin eat the child. Morphology can also pose a problem. Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more
Video examples
How optical illusions...
is the way your photo receptors and brain assemble visual information into the three-dimensional world you see around you, where edges should get extra attention because things with edges can help you or kill you. Look at that muffin pan again. You know what causes confusion here?
Video examples
Nicholas Christakis: The...
in the same given time period. There can be many mechanisms for this One possibility is that your friends say to you something like -- you know, they adopt a behavior that spreads to you -- like, they say, "Let's go have muffins and beer," which is a terrible combination.
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Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
and likely stale muffin that Ari produced for her but this morning with a matchstick in it for his birthday so I thought that fergus I should have been more aware of the Sun you see how Fergus moved to be with the Sun they're very important in summer look at this little
Video examples
The power of vulnerabilit...
that you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can't say, here's the bad stuff. Here's vulnerability, here's grief, here's shame, here's fear, here's disappointment. I don't want to feel these. I'm going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin.
Video examples
Steven Pinker: What our...
How are these construals reflected in language? Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb. So, when you think of the event as causing the muffin to go somewhere --
Video examples
12 truths I learned from...
God just means goodness. It's really not all that scary. It means the divine or a loving, animating intelligence, or, as we learned from the great "Deteriorata," "the cosmic muffin."
Video examples
The power of vulnerabilit...
muffin I don't want to feel these and I know that's it I know that's knowing laughter i hack into your lives for a living I know that's God
Video examples
Four Point Landings PIPE...
muffin here has had the excellent idea of jumping on top of the door nowhere else to go now what about the doorframe
Video examples
Hear the Untold Story of...
happy Joe I'm going to eat the muffin dough buck segi but Easter only under sub-servicer but
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Kyle Busch
American Driver
We have fans who bake cookies for the team or they make cupcakes or muffins and stuff like that. And then they always ask us if we enjoyed it and how it tasted. I'm like, 'That was so long ago. I don't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning!
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Mike Holmgren
American Coach
I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
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John Jay Chapman
American Poet
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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Molly Sims
American Model
I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at making biscuits - all the really bad stuff.
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Stephen Furst
American Actor
I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.
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Shawn Mendes
Canadian Musician
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
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Aaron Funk
Canadian Musician
I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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Gautam Rode
Indian Actor
As a kid, I would have 6-7 muffins with milk for breakfast.
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Phoebe Tonkin
Australian Actress
I'm obsessed with muffins.
Quote examples
Kyle Busch
American Driver
We have fans who bake cookies for the team or they make cupcakes or muffins and stuff like that. And then they always ask us if we enjoyed it and how it tasted. I'm like, 'That was so long ago. I don't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning!
Quote examples
Mike Holmgren
American Coach
I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.
Quote examples
Caroline Knapp
American Writer
I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
Quote examples
John Jay Chapman
American Poet
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Quote examples
Molly Sims
American Model
I'm a baker. I'm really good at muffins. I'm really good at banana bread. I'm really good at making cookies. I'm really good at making biscuits - all the really bad stuff.
Quote examples
Stephen Furst
American Actor
I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.
Quote examples
Shawn Mendes
Canadian Musician
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
Quote examples
Aaron Funk
Canadian Musician
I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
Quote examples
Gautam Rode
Indian Actor
As a kid, I would have 6-7 muffins with milk for breakfast.
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Phoebe Tonkin
Australian Actress
I'm obsessed with muffins.
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