"muffinery" meaning in English

See muffinery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: muffineries [plural]
Etymology: From muffin + -ery. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|muffin|ery}} muffin + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun}} muffinery (plural muffineries)
  1. (rare) A muffin shop. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-muffinery-en-noun-3hk1nfh- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for muffinery meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "muffin",
        "3": "ery"
      },
      "expansion": "muffin + -ery",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From muffin + -ery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muffineries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muffinery (plural muffineries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ery",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 March 3, Los Angeles Times, page 86",
          "text": "It’s got everything from toast, cereals, blintzes and omelets to huge muffins baked at the Gorky’s-owned People’s Muffinery around the corner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 July 23, Monrovia News-Post, volume 77, number 60, page TAB-6",
          "text": "BIRDIES CAFE & MUFFINERY",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4",
          "text": "Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 June 26, James C. Allison, “Let's Start a Discussion, O.K.?”, in alt.solipsism (Usenet)",
          "text": "Also you might get lucky and get a shot of the wit and enlightened wisdon of HeartHappy! Mother of the Coin Operated Prismat, and Head Baker at the Cosmic Muffinery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, page 148",
          "text": "Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Daniel Pinkwater, “Yes, I Know the Muffin Man”, in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, pages 86–87",
          "text": "Yes, Matthias Krenzer, the old Dutch censor, who stole the censer, and became an old Dutch cleanser, later opened a small muffinery and became known as the Muffin Man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A muffin shop."
      ],
      "id": "en-muffinery-en-noun-3hk1nfh-",
      "links": [
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin"
        ],
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A muffin shop."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muffinery"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "muffin",
        "3": "ery"
      },
      "expansion": "muffin + -ery",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From muffin + -ery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muffineries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muffinery (plural muffineries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ery",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 March 3, Los Angeles Times, page 86",
          "text": "It’s got everything from toast, cereals, blintzes and omelets to huge muffins baked at the Gorky’s-owned People’s Muffinery around the corner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 July 23, Monrovia News-Post, volume 77, number 60, page TAB-6",
          "text": "BIRDIES CAFE & MUFFINERY",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4",
          "text": "Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 June 26, James C. Allison, “Let's Start a Discussion, O.K.?”, in alt.solipsism (Usenet)",
          "text": "Also you might get lucky and get a shot of the wit and enlightened wisdon of HeartHappy! Mother of the Coin Operated Prismat, and Head Baker at the Cosmic Muffinery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, page 148",
          "text": "Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Daniel Pinkwater, “Yes, I Know the Muffin Man”, in Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, pages 86–87",
          "text": "Yes, Matthias Krenzer, the old Dutch censor, who stole the censer, and became an old Dutch cleanser, later opened a small muffinery and became known as the Muffin Man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A muffin shop."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin"
        ],
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A muffin shop."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muffinery"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.