muffin

Everyday

1. (USA, Canada, Australia and now everywhere) A small sweet cake baked in a cup-shaped tin, often with fruit or chocolate chips. tree →
2. (UK) English muffin: a flat, round bread roll eaten toasted with butter. tree →
3. (informal) A friendly or teasing name for someone. tree →

In the lessons

Muffins appear in maths problems about baking, sharing and money: "12 muffins shared among 4 children". In everyday life: blueberry muffins, chocolate muffins. Phrases: muffin tin, muffin top (informal, rude-ish), blueberry muffin.

Examples

• We baked 12 blueberry muffins for the fair. tree →
• Each muffin costs 2 dollars. tree →
• Share 24 muffins equally among 6 children: each gets 4. tree →
• Grandma toasted an English muffin for breakfast. tree →
• The muffin tin has 12 holes. tree →
• I had a chocolate muffin with my milk. tree →
• And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten. tree →

Note

Countable: one muffin, two muffins. In the UK an "English muffin" is bread, not a cake. A muffin tin usually holds 6 or 12, a common maths number.