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Word entry · 6 letters

muffin

Best crossword clue

"Small breakfast cake"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈmʌf.ɪn/Part of speech nounSorted ffimnuStarts with MEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

Word origin

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff.

Used in a sentence

  • […] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin.
  • It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin.
  • “A cup of tea and a muffin, please,” he ordered.

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