muffinery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From muffin +‎ -ery.

Noun[edit]

muffinery (plural muffineries)

  1. (rare) A muffin shop.
    • 1985 March 3, Los Angeles Times, page 86:
      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.
    • 1986 July 23, Monrovia News-Post, volume 77, number 60, page TAB-6:
      BIRDIES CAFE & MUFFINERY
    • 1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4:
      Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.
    • 1998 June 26, James C. Allison, “Let's Start a Discussion, O.K.?”, in alt.solipsism (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2004, Henry Shukman, “Road Movie”, in Darien Dogs, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:
      Especially when all the little breakfasteries, the delis and donuteries and muffineries, are rattling up their shutters and putting on the coffee to brew.
    • 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, →ISBN, pages 86–87:
      “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.”