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How to pronounce “muffin”
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Pronunciation guide for muffin
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of muffin with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes
You can say, "Give a muffin to a mouse," the prepositional dative.
- Definition summary
- (British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce muffin
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes
You can say, "Give a muffin to a mouse," the prepositional dative.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “muffin”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
- 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).
- (colloquial, endearing) Term of endearment.
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
- (baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
- (dated or LGBTQ slang) A charming, attractive young man. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (dated) A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.
- (UK dialect, Northern England, especially Manchester) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
- (ice hockey, slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
- (Canada, slang, archaic) A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season. [late 1800s]
- (Java programming language) 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.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To eat muffins.
- (transitive) To feed muffins to.
- (intransitive) To become like a muffin; to increase in size.
- (transitive) To make like a muffin.
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