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muffin

/ˈmʌfɪn/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten.
  2. A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
  3. (especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
  4. 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.
  5. Term of endearment.
  6. (sexual slang) A vulva.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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