Muffin vs Minimuffin - What's the difference?
muffin | minimuffin |
(British) a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten
(US) A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
(especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
(computing) a mechanism used in the analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine
(slang) a term of endearment
(sexual slang) a vulva
(baseball, slang) a less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball
(slang) a charming, attractive young man
A small muffin.
* 2003 , Ann Burckhardt, A cook's tour of Minnesota
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As nouns the difference between muffin and minimuffin
is that muffin is muffin (individual cake) while minimuffin is a small muffin.muffin
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Noun
(en noun)Quotations
computing term * 2001': The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "'''muffins ." — ''JNLP and Java Web Start , Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001. the vulva * 1989': I wanna be stuffin’ Martha’s '''muffin !!!, — Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper ''Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin .Synonyms
* (flattish bun''): English muffin (''US )Derived terms
* English muffin * muffin cap * muffin top * muffin-warm * muffiny * stud muffinminimuffin
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Noun
(en noun)- The school children are given a fresh apple for eating, a face-painted apple, a sample of cider, and a minimuffin .
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