name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Standard Lemma guide
muffin
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmʌf.ɪn/
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rhymes with -ʌfɪn
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CMU ARPABET: M AH1 F AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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Synonyms: English muffin
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noun
Meaning 4
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Term of endearment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, endearing
Examples
- I love you, muffin!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cupcake, babber, babe, precious, bae, baby, babycakes, bubba, bully, buttercup, cabbage, chickabiddy, chickadee, chuck, cutie, dag, darling, dear, dear heart, dearest, dearie, dearling, doll, doodlebug, dove, duck, ducky, dumpling, fam, heart, heartface, heartling, heartmate, hinny, hon, honey, honey bun, honeybunch, honeybug, honeybunny, honeycakes, honeypie, jewel, jo, kidder, lambchop, lambkin, lass (archaic except UK, dialectal (chiefly Geordie, Wearside), informal or poetic), liefling, little one, love, lovebug, loveling, lovie, luvvy, m'dear, miting, moppet, mopsy, mouse, muffin, muss, old bean, old sport, pally, pet, petal, poppet, pug, pumpkin, pussums, pussy, sausage, schnookums, shug, snicklefritz, snookums, snuggums, squishy, sug, sugar, sugar baby, sugar beet, sugar-plum, sugarpie, sweet pea, sweetcheeks, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweets, sweetling, treasure, woobie
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noun
Meaning 6
The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, vulgar
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: muff, axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, box, bun, bush, cavern, clunge, coin slot, cooch, coochie, cookie, cooter, cooze, crack, crevice, cunny, cunt, fanny, fish lips, foo-foo, front bottom, front bum, front hole, gash, ginch, girl, Grand Canyon, honeypot, hoo-ha, innie, juice box, kebab, kitty, la-la, love box, love tunnel, minge, minnie, monosyllable, moocha, muffin, nonny, pee-pee, penis fly trap, pink, pink bits, poontang, pump, punani, pussy, quim, sausage wallet, sheath, slit, snapper, snatch, squish mitten, stench trench, strange, sugar walls, tuppence, trap, twat, twinkle, vadge, vag, vagina, vaginer, va-jay-jay, vertical smile, Vicky, Victoria, Virginia, vulva, wee-wee, whisker biscuit, wizard's sleeve
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 8
A charming, attractive young man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: dated or LGBTQ slang
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noun
Meaning 9
A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Meaning 10
A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
Qualifier: especially Manchester
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noun
Meaning 11
A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
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noun
Meaning 12
A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, archaic, slang
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noun
Meaning 13
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Java programming language
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verb
Meaning 14
To eat muffins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To feed muffins to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 16
To become like a muffin; to increase in size.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 17
To make like a muffin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 18
Alternative letter-case form of MUFFIN.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, historical, transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 19
To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 20
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gem
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quick bread
Narrower terms: bran muffin, corn muffin, popover
History
Etymology
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.
After the MUFFIN program written by Rich Williams at Apple, supposed to be an acronym of move utility for files in NewDOS.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: muffin — flattish bun, English muffin
- Arabic: مَفِن (mafin) — flattish bun, English muffin
- Chinese Mandarin: 滿福堡 /满福堡 (mǎnfúbǎo) — flattish bun, English muffin
- Chinese Mandarin: 英式瑪芬 /英式玛芬 (Yīngshì mǎfēn) — flattish bun, English muffin
- Chinese Mandarin: 英式鬆餅 /英式松饼 (Yīngshì sōngbǐng) — flattish bun, English muffin
- Esperanto: mafino — flattish bun, English muffin
- French: muffin — flattish bun, English muffin
- German: Muffin — flattish bun, English muffin
- Norwegian Bokmål: muffins — flattish bun, English muffin
- Polish: proziak — flattish bun, English muffin
- Portuguese: muffin — flattish bun, English muffin
- Afrikaans: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Arabic: مَافِن (māfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Armenian: մաֆին (mafin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Azerbaijani: maffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Belarusian: ма́фін (máfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Bengali: মাফিন (maphin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Bulgarian: мъ́фин (mǎ́fin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Chinese Mandarin: 瑪芬 /玛芬 (mǎfēn) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Chinese Mandarin: 鬆餅 /松饼 (sōngbǐng) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Czech: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Dutch: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Esperanto: mafino — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Finnish: muffini — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Finnish: kuppikakku — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Finnish: vuokaleivos — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- French: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Georgian: მაფინი (mapini) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- German: Muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Greek: μάφιν (máfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Hebrew: מַאפִין (máfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Japanese: マフィン (mafin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Kazakh: маффин (maffin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Korean: 머핀 (meopin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Norwegian Bokmål: muffins — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Norwegian Bokmål: cupcake — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Iranian Persian: مافین (mâfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Polish: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Polish: muffinek — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Polish: muffinka — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Russian: кекс (keks) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Russian: ма́ффин (máffin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Slovak: mafin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Spanish: panecillo — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Spanish: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Turkish: muffin — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Ukrainian: ма́фін (máfin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin
- Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin) — cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin