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# muffin

«muffin» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small sweet cake baked in a cup-shaped tin, often with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a muffin, muffins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (USA, Canada, Australia and now everywhere) A small sweet cake baked in a cup-shaped tin, often with fruit or chocolate chips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#m1)

2) (UK) English muffin: a flat, round bread roll eaten toasted with butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#m2)

3) (informal) A friendly or teasing name for someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Muffins appear in maths problems about baking, sharing and money: "12 muffins shared among 4 children". In everyday life: blueberry muffins, chocolate muffins. Phrases: muffin tin, muffin top (informal, rude-ish), blueberry muffin.

### examples

- We baked 12 blueberry muffins for the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x1)
- Each muffin costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x2)
- Share 24 muffins equally among 6 children: each gets 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x3)
- Grandma toasted an English muffin for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x4)
- The muffin tin has 12 holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x5)
- I had a chocolate muffin with my milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x6)
- And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/#x7)

### note

Countable: one muffin, two muffins. In the UK an "English muffin" is bread, not a cake. A muffin tin usually holds 6 or 12, a common maths number.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «muffin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muffin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.