Definition of "muffin"

The name/value pairs provided by the PersistenceService are similar to browser cookies. The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."

2001, JNLP and Java Web Start, Sun Developer Network, Technical Articles and Tips, 30 May 2001

I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!

1986, “Stuffin' Martha's Muffin”, in Frenzy, performed by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed.

1854, Margaret Oliphant W[ilson] Oliphant, quoting Laurence Oliphant, Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife, new edition, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1892, page 92

The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."]

Howard Russell, Canada: Its Defenses, Condition, and Resources, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 149

A long string of two-seated sleighs, a pleasant tête-à-tête drive for many miles snugly ensconced in the buffalo robes with your "muffin" by your side, a halt at some hospitable settler's, and an impromptu dance in his barn, wTith a return journey in the crisp moonlight air, left impressions that are still vivid. ¶ The "muffin" was a social institution of those days, which may or may not have survived. Every young swain by unwritten but acknowledged law was permitted to make his choice of a partner for the season, with whom he danced exclusively, and whom he drove in his sleigh and skated with hand in hand.

1904, Arthur Griffiths, Fifty Years of Public Service, London […]: Cassel and Company, Limited, pages 52–53

I dined yesterday at | three on mutton chops and 1/2 pint of E[ast] I [ndian] sherry, and then tead and muffined at 8.

1837, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837, Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, published 1982, page 319

And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.

1965 October 12, “Gingerbread Muffins Start Day Off Right”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 39

NANCY SCRAPES OFF the mold without complaining because it is like a gift from Carl, and she doesn’t have the heart to tell him she is muffined out …

1987 January 27, Concetta Doucette, “Savings”, in Impact (Albuquerque Journal Magazine), volume 10, number 15, page 13

HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?

1988 February 28, Bea Lewis, “For Teatime Or Anytime”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 35

We met about 8:00 A.M. for the usual continental breakfast – I am getting over muffined!

2005, Marlin E. Misner, editor, History of the Reagan Home: The Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois, page 35

‘So what I can get you to celebrate. Bit of cake?’ ‘I’m all muffined up, thanks!’

2007, Jane Sigaloff, The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter, Red Dress Ink, page 159

Hehe, I've eaten three apple muffins this morning. I've all muffined out!

2017, Carrie Ewin, Chris Ewin, Cheryl Ewin, “Lesson 5: Creating Text Posts”, in Facebook for Seniors: Connect with Friends and Family in 12 Easy Lessons, San Francisco, Caif.: No Starch Press, section “Viewing Your Posts on Your Timeline”, page 97

But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"

1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “The St. Beetha’s Temperance Society”, in St. Beetha’s; or, The Heiress of Arne, London: “Christian World” Office, […]; Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, […], page 213

We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables.

1999, Working Woman, page 96

Well, you know, my mother always told me to welcome new neighbors with muffins, and I just realized you’ve already been here six months and I still haven’t gotten around to baking muffins for you … Well anyway, that’s all I wanted to tell you — consider yourself muffined!

2001, Nancy Huston, Dolce Agonia, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, page 102

A pale band of flesh muffined up over her shorts, her lively top not quite up to the task of covering it, and Chrissy tugged at the fabric ineffectively.

2009 August, Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, page 48

In spite of wearing the largest size of body armor available, her ample breasts were simply much too big, and deliciously muffined over the top.

2009 December, James Axler [house name; Nick Pollotta], “Prologue”, in Time Castaways (Deathlands), Worldwide Library, page 16

Baby fat muffined over the top of Rebecca’s jeans.

2013, E[lizabeth] F[rancine] Winters, chapter 15, in Sharks and Minnows (book one of The Jolie Chronicles), Kenspeckle Productions, LLC, page 173

Allan Grace was lean, but his neck muffined out over the crisp white collar.

2014, Terry Dowling, “The Four Darks”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror, ChiZine Publications, page 117

Beers rested on bellies that muffined over shorts.

2014, David Mason, Walk Across Australia: The First Solo Crossing, Rosenberg Publishing

It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.

2016, Adam Biles, Feeding Time, Galley Beggar Press

Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like! Ah, yew doan’t know what muffined biscuits be!

1920, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 418

WE HAVE too many raisins in our cake; / Our bread is muffined.

1924, Edmund Vance Cooke, “Fat”, in Companionable Poems, page 183

Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.

1944, Harper’s Bazaar, page 63

Muffined Eggs with Mushrooms

1990, Caleb Pirtle, The Land Where We Belong, Leisure Time Publishing, page 91

(The package may also be “muffined” by those users who wish to take advantage of the greater disk capacity available using the new Apple DOS 3.3).

1981 July 6, Joel Pitt, “InfoWorld Software Review: Micro-Painter: Apple Coloring Program”, in InfoWorld, section “Usefulness”, page 16

Print II is supplied on a DOS 3.2 disk (it can be muffined to DOS 3.3 ), which contains programs to customize Print II for specific memory configurations and several simple demonstration programs.

1982, Microcomputing, page 157

Second, any material that is indicated as 3.2 DOS must either be muffined to 3.3 DOS, or booted after using the Basics Utility to reconfigure your DOS to 13-sector. […] DOS 3.2 is used in this mode, but files may be muffined to DOS 3.3 if desired.

1983, InCider, pages 83 and 92