muffin
/ˈmʌfɪn/ · noun
Meaning
- A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten.
- A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
- (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
- 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.
- Term of endearment.
- (sexual slang) A vulva.
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