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muffiny en · ADJ

Etymology

From muffin + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a muffin.
   • Of course, it could, and was—a sweet muffiny smell, the smell you would get if you opened a bag of muffins and stuck your nose in. 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, →ISBN, page 104:
   • When she came back she was carrying a tray of coffee and a muffiny thing. 2001, Simon Gray, Enter a Fox, Granta Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 118:
   • Irish faces tend to be either like hers, all lines and angles, or round and muffiny, circle upon circle. 2007, Madeleine Blais, Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family, Grove Press, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

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