muffins

IPA/ˈmʌf.ɪn/
KK[mˈʌfənz]IPA/ˈmʌf.ɪn/

muffins — noun

  • muffinssingular
  • muffinsesplural

1. a small sweet baked food shaped like a cup, usually made with flour, eggs, sugar

1.名詞A2
釋義

a small sweet baked food shaped like a cup, usually made with flour, eggs, sugar, and often containing pieces of fruit, chocolate, or nuts — for example, a blueberry muffin or a chocolate-chip muffin.

例句

Jin baked a batch of blueberry muffins for the school bake sale on Saturday.

collocation: blueberry muffin / chocolate-chip muffin

The café on Elm Street sells warm chocolate muffins every morning before nine.

同義詞
  • cupcake

    a small cake with icing on top — sweeter than a muffin, usually eaten as a dessert

  • bun

    a small sweet bread roll, sometimes containing fruit, but usually rounder and not baked in a cup-shaped pan

文法句型

muffin + [flavour / ingredient]

bake + muffins

muffin + tin / pan

用法筆記

Countable noun used both as singular (a muffin) and plural (muffins). Frequently combined with ingredient names before the word, e.g., blueberry muffin, bran muffin, corn muffin.

常見錯誤

❌I ate a cupcake for breakfast.' (when meaning a simple muffin without icing).
✅I ate a muffin for breakfast.
💡A cupcake is a sweet cake with icing on top; a muffin is simpler and usually has no icing.

2. a small flat round bread made from dough cooked on a griddle, usually split open

2.名詞B1
釋義

a small flat round bread made from dough cooked on a griddle, usually split open horizontally, toasted, and eaten with butter, jam, or savoury toppings like eggs or cheese.

例句

Minh toasted an English muffin and spread butter on both halves for breakfast.

verb pattern: toast + English muffin + spread + [topping]

Heloísa ordered eggs Benedict, which came on two toasted English muffins with ham.

dish: eggs Benedict on English muffin

同義詞
  • crumpet

    a British griddle bread similar to an English muffin, but softer and full of small holes on top

  • bread roll

    a small round bread that is softer and not split before toasting

文法句型

English muffin

toast + [a] muffin

muffin + [topping]

用法筆記

In the United States, this sense is always called an English muffin to distinguish it from sense 1. Outside the US it is often simply called a muffin, though this can cause confusion with the sweet cake-like muffin.

常見錯誤

❌I bought a sweet blueberry English muffin from the bakery.
✅I bought a sweet blueberry muffin from the bakery.
💡An English muffin (sense 2) is a flat bread, not sweet; a blueberry muffin (sense 1) is a sweet cake-like baked good.