muffin
意味
- マッフィン
- 《英》円形の軽焼きパン;熱いうちにバターを付けて食べる(《米》English muffin)
- 《米》バターを付けて食べるロール(カップ)ケーキ
例文
How many blueberry muffins did you eat yesterday?
ブルーベリーマフィン、昨日幾つ食べたの?
I don't know why I need to stop eating muffins.
どうしてマフィンを食べるの止めなくちゃいけないのか、それが分かんないんだ。
There's only blueberry muffins for breakfast!
朝は、ブルーベリーマフィンに限る!
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”). Sense “vulva” influenced by muff.