muffin

sustantivo

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   A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.

   […] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin.

   We take a less gloomy view of our errors now our father confessor listens to us over his egg and coffee. We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.

   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.

   Little did poor Doctor Walker imagine as he sat at his breakfast-table next morning that the two sweet girls who sat on either side of him were deep in a conspiracy, and that he, munching innocently at his muffins, was the victim against whom their wiles were planned.

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   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.

   Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs. Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins.

   […] to prepare sustenance like roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, vinaigrettes, guacamole, and bananabread muffins.

   To start we'll go with an easy choice, a delicious chocolate muffin made with Mexican chocolate that goes well with ice cream or fruit […]

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   Term of endearment.

   I love you, muffin!

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   jergaThe vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.

   I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!

   Is your muffin buttered?

   She peeled off her clothes and stretched out on a towel. At first she lay still, then slowly Maddie slid a hand down her smooth tummy and into her muffin.

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   jergaA less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

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   A charming, attractive young man.

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   anticuadoA small plate, smaller than a twiffler.

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   A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.

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   jergaA very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.

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    arcaicoA young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season.

    I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed.

    The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."

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    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."

verbo

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   To eat muffins.

   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.

   And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.

   NANCY SCRAPES OFF the mold without complaining because it is like a gift from Carl, and she doesn’t have the heart to tell him she is muffined out …

   HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?

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   To feed muffins to.

   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!"

   We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables.

   Well, you know, my mother always told me to welcome new neighbors with muffins, and I just realized you’ve already been here six months and I still haven’t gotten around to baking muffins for you … Well anyway, that’s all I wanted to tell you — consider yourself muffined!

   Grandma Bessie saw me and muffined me.

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   To become like a muffin; to increase in size.

   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.

   In spite of wearing the largest size of body armor available, her ample breasts were simply much too big, and deliciously muffined over the top.

   Baby fat muffined over the top of Rebecca’s jeans.

   Allan Grace was lean, but his neck muffined out over the crisp white collar.

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   To make like a muffin.

   Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be!

   WE HAVE too many raisins in our cake; / Our bread is muffined.

   Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.

   Muffined Eggs with Mushrooms

verbo

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   Variante de MUFFINhistóricoAlternative letter-case form of MUFFIN.

   (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).

   Print II is supplied on a DOS 3.2 disk (it can be muffined to DOS 3.3 ), which contains programs to customize Print II for specific memory configurations and several simple demonstration programs.

   Second, any material that is indicated as 3.2 DOS must either be muffined to 3.3 DOS, or booted after using the Basics Utility to reconfigure your DOS to 13-sector.[…]DOS 3.2 is used in this mode, but files may be muffined to DOS 3.3 if desired.

Formas

plural

muffins

pasado

muffined

participio

muffined

gerundio

muffining

3.ª persona del singular

muffins