muffiny

English

Etymology

muffin + -y

Adjective

muffiny (comparative muffinier, superlative muffiniest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a muffin.
    • 2001, Simon Gray, Enter a Fox, Granta Books (2005), →ISBN, page 118:
      When she came back she was carrying a tray of coffee and a muffiny thing.
    • 2007, Madeleine Blais, Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family, Grove Press (2007), →ISBN, pages 85-86:
      Irish faces tend to be either like hers, all lines and angles, or round and muffiny, circle upon circle.
    • 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2010), →ISBN, page 104:
      Of course, it could, and was—a sweet muffiny smell, the smell you would get if you opened a bag of muffins and stuck your nose in.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:muffiny.
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