muffiny

muffiny

English

Etymology

muffin +‎ -y

Adjective

muffiny (comparative muffinier, superlative muffiniest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a muffin.
   • 2001, Simon Gray, Enter a Fox, Granta Books (2005), →ISBN, page 118:

     When she came back she was carrying a tray of coffee and a muffiny thing.

   • 2007, Madeleine Blais, Uphill Walkers: Memoir of a Family, Grove Press (2007), →ISBN, pages 85-86:

     Irish faces tend to be either like hers, all lines and angles, or round and muffiny, circle upon circle.

   • 2010, Daniel Pinkwater, Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2010), →ISBN, page 104:

     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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:muffiny.