muffin

noun11

1. •
   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. — 1919
2. •
   (UK) 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. — 1813
3. •
   (dialect, UK) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
4. •
   (informal) Term of endearment.

   • I love you, muffin!
5. •
   (slang, vulgar) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.

   • I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin! — 1986
6. •
   (slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
7. •
   (slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
8. •
   A charming, attractive young man.
9. •
   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." — 2001
10. •
    (old-fashioned) A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.
11. •
    (slang, no longer used) A 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. — 1854

verb4

1. •
   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. — 1837
2. •
   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. — 2009
3. •
   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! — 1920
4. •
   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!" — 1866

verb1

1. •
   To transfer files between 13-sector and 16-sector Apple II diskettes, as with MUFFIN (Move Utility For Files In NewDOS.)

   • Remember, MUFFINing a diskette won't harm your 13 sector diskette, and you can always boot 13 sector diskettes using BASICS. — 1980