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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).
2001, JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001:
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."
A long string of two-seated sleighs, a pleasant tête-à-tête drive for many miles snugly ensconced in the buffalo robes with your "muffin" by your side, a halt at some hospitable settler's, and an impromptu dance in his barn, wTith a return journey in the crisp moonlight air, left impressions that are still vivid. ¶ The "muffin" was a social institution of those days, which may or may not have survived. Every young swain by unwritten but acknowledged law was permitted to make his choice of a partner for the season, with whom he danced exclusively, and whom he drove in his sleigh and skated with hand in hand.
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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.
1965 October 12, “Gingerbread Muffins Start Day Off Right”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 39:
And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.
1987 January 27, Concetta Doucette, “Savings”, in Impact (Albuquerque Journal Magazine), volume 10, number 15, page 13:
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 …
1988 February 28, Bea Lewis, “For Teatime Or Anytime”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 35:
HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?
2005, Marlin E. Misner, editor, History of the Reagan Home: The Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois, →ISBN, page 35:
We met about 8:00 A.M. for the usual continental breakfast – I am getting over muffined!
2007, Jane Sigaloff, The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter, Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 159:
‘So what I can get you to celebrate. Bit of cake?’ ‘I’m all muffined up, thanks!’
2017, Carrie Ewin, Chris Ewin, Cheryl Ewin, “Lesson 5: Creating Text Posts”, in Facebook for Seniors: Connect with Friends and Family in 12 Easy Lessons, San Francisco, Caif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, section “Viewing Your Posts on Your Timeline”, page 97:
Hehe, I've eaten three apple muffins this morning. I've all muffined out!
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!"
1999, Working Woman, page 96:
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!
2023, Earl Laman, chapter 20, in Being With…, Meadville, Pa.: Fulton Books, →ISBN:
Grandma Bessie saw me and muffined me.
(intransitive) 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.
Allan Grace was lean, but his neck muffined out over the crisp white collar.
2014, David Mason, Walk Across Australia: The First Solo Crossing, Rosenberg Publishing, →ISBN:
Beers rested on bellies that muffined over shorts.
2016, Adam Biles, Feeding Time, Galley Beggar Press, →ISBN:
It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.
1981 July 6, Joel Pitt, “InfoWorld Software Review: Micro-Painter: Apple Coloring Program”, in InfoWorld, section “Usefulness”, page 16:
(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).
1982, Microcomputing, page 157:
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.
1983, InCider, pages 83 and 92:
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.
References
Matthew Smith (2018 July 20) “Cobs, buns, baps or barm cakes: what do people call bread rolls?”, in YouGov, archived from the original on 27 January 2024
“muffin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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