[ noun ] a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan <noun.food>
Muffin \Muf"fin\, n. [From {Muff}.] A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
A backer of the cranberry muffin, Sen. Lloyd Kincaid, didn't think much of the idea.
I said I would be delighted to. Leading me outside the living room to a wide wooden veranda, he placed a muffin in my hand and told me to let fly.
For example, a Sara Lee Corp. unit test-marketed and then withdrew an English muffin of wheat grown without chemical pesticides but plans to try again with an organic bread.
The Egg McMuffin (ham and egg on an English muffin) arrived in 1973; Chicken McNuggets appeared in 1983 and McDonald's was soon the second-largest chicken retailer in the world (topped only by Kentucky Fried Chicken).