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Muffin

//ˈmʌfɪn// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A female given name. rare
2
A surname.

Noun

1
A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten. British
"[…] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin."
2
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan wordnet
3
A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
"Aubrey got a bowl of soup, a cup of coffee, beef stew, and bran muffins, and took them to an empty seat by the window. He ate with one eye on the street."
4
Term of endearment. colloquial, endearing
"I love you, muffin!"
5
The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it. slang, vulgar
"I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!"

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6
A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball. slang
7
A charming, attractive young man.
8
A small plate, smaller than a twiffler. dated
9
A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted. Northern-England, UK, dialectal
10
A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast. slang
11
A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season. Canada, archaic, slang
"I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed."
12
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.
"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.""

Verb

1
To eat muffins. intransitive
"I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined at 8."
2
Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN. alt-of, historical, transitive
"(The package may also be “muffined” by those users who wish to take advantage of the greater disk capacity available using the new Apple DOS 3.3)."
3
Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN. alt-of
"Microsoft’s and SDS’s compilers come on 3.2 disks that may be Muffined to 3.3."
4
To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.) transitive
"Remember, MUFFINing a diskette won't harm your 13 sector diskette, and you can always boot 13 sector diskettes using BASICS."
5
To feed muffins to. transitive
"But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!""

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6
To become like a muffin; to increase in size. intransitive
"A pale band of flesh muffined up over her shorts, her lively top not quite up to the task of covering it, and Chrissy tugged at the fabric ineffectively."
7
To make like a muffin. transitive
"Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

After the MUFFIN program written by Rich Williams at Apple, supposed to be an acronym of move utility for files in NewDOS.

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