How do you use the word "muffin" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "muffin": I prefer to eat a muffin rather than a dinosaur. I want an English muffin.

Muffin Meaning

/ˈmʌf.ɪn/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

nounA 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).

Sentence Examples

I prefer to eat a muffin rather than a dinosaur.

I want an English muffin.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

gem

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The recipe for a single ____ called for flour, sugar, and blueberries baked in a small paper cup.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I enjoyed a delicious blueberry ____ and a large cup of hot coffee for breakfast while I read the morning news on my tablet at the cafe.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin." — 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 174:

"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." — 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVI, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

"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." — 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:

"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." — 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, Beyond the City:

"“A cup of tea and a muffin, please,” he ordered." — 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

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