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muffinery en · NOUN

Etymology

From muffin + -ery.

Meanings

1. (rare) A muffin shop.
   • It’s got everything from toast, cereals, blintzes and omelets to huge muffins baked at the Gorky’s-owned People’s Muffinery around the corner. 1985 March 3, Los Angeles Times, page 86:
   • Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew. 2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
   • Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins. 1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4:
   • Also you might get lucky and get a shot of the wit and enlightened wisdon of HeartHappy! Mother of the Coin Operated Prismat, and Head Baker at the Cosmic Muffinery. 1998 June 26, James C. Allison, “Let's Start a Discussion, O.K.?”, in alt.solipsism (Usenet):
   • BIRDIES CAFE & MUFFINERY 1986 July 23, Monrovia News-Post, volume 77, number 60, page TAB-6:
   • “Yes, Matthias Krenzer, the old Dutch censor, who stole the censer, and became an old Dutch cleanser, later opened a small muffinery and became known as the Muffin Man.” 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, “Yes, I Know the Muffin Man”, in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, →ISBN, pages 86–87:

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