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muffins

[muhf-in] Origin

muf·fin

[muhf-in]
noun
1.
an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan (muffin pan) containing a series of cuplike forms.

Origin:
1695–1705; origin uncertain
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Word Origin & History

muffin
1703, moofin, possibly from Low Ger. muffen, pl. of muffe "small cake;" or somehow connected with O.Fr. moufflet "soft" (said of bread).
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