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Muffin man   /mˈəfən mæn/   Listen
Muffin man

noun
1.
Formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins.





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"Muffin man" Quotes from Famous Books



... windows—the profane Admiral with the timber leg popping his head out of one, the mysterious fat man—in some sort the villain of the piece—putting his head out of another to woo the buxom widow at a third. And then the muffin man! In the twilight when the lamp is lighted and the heroine at last is in the hero's arms, there would be a pleasant crunching of muffins at all the windows ...
— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks
... "The Muffin Man" is another variety. The players sit in a circle, and the game is begun by one of them turning to the next and asking, either ...
— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher


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