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muffin-warm en · ADJ

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  1. (informal) Warm as a freshly baked muffin.
    • At breakfast the next morning in the muffin-warm, coffee-hot, kazoo-zippy, baby-back-thumping, flame flickering winter kitchen. 2014, Carolyn Chute, Treat us like dogs and we will become wolves, Grove/Atlantic:
    • The selling point (still mainly theoretical) was that you could put these mice in the microwave and they would come out muffin-warm and smelling like potpourri. 2005 October 10, Jeffrey Eugenides, “Early Music”, in The New Yorker:
    • A thick napped 4 pound muffin-warm blanket that moths will avoid like moth balls for the next five years… it's been mothproof for that long! 1939 October 15, “Hess Brothers”, in The Morning Call (advertisement), Allentown, Pennsylvania, page 3: