duffin
duffin noun: a combination of a doughnut and a muffin.
Noun
duffin (plural duffins)
- A combination of a doughnut and a muffin.
- Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4
- Take a little time and enjoy deciding between single-serve yogurt cakes (cherries and peaches are mixed in the dough), scones, turnovers, muffins, and duffins, a specialty of the house that crosses muffins and cake doughnuts.2012, Pamela Denney, Food Lovers’ Guide to Memphis: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings, Morris Book Publishing, page 63
Proper noun capitalized: Duffin
Duffin (plural Duffins)
- A surname from Irish.
Examples of duffin in a sentence
- Though nowadays with your cronuts and your duffins, all the rules have changed.2014, Stella Newman, A Pear Shaped Christmas, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- “I was actually going to get some duffins, but the cronuts looked better so I bought those instead.” “What’s a duffin?” he asked hesitantly.2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:
Forms of duffin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | duffins |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Duffins |
Origin of duffin
Blend of doughnut + muffin.
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duibhfinn (“descendant of Dubhfionn”), a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black”) + fionn (“fair, white”).
Questions about duffin
- What does duffin mean?
- Duffin means a combination of a doughnut and a muffin.
- How do you use duffin in a sentence?
- Though nowadays with your cronuts and your duffins, all the rules have changed.
- What part of speech is duffin?
- Duffin can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of duffin?
- The plural of duffin is duffins.
Words near duffin in the dictionary
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