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muffinier

muffinier is the alternative spelling of muffineer.

Meaning of muffineer

Noun

muffineer (plural muffineers)

  1. A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
    • He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII
  2. (obsolete) A dish for keeping muffins hot.

Forms of muffinier

pluralmuffiniers

Origin of muffinier

From muffin + -ier.

Questions about muffinier

What is muffinier the alternative spelling of?
Muffinier is the alternative spelling of muffineer.

Words near muffinier in the dictionary

  1. muffineries
  2. muffinery
  3. muffing
  4. muffing up
  5. muffings
  6. muffinier
  7. muffiniers
  8. muffining
  9. muffinless
  10. muffinlike
  11. muffins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muffinier (page history and authors); muffineer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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