Meaning of Duffin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Irish.
2. A combination of a doughnut and a muffin.

Examples

“Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.”

“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.”

“The subs spent a pedantic hour arguing over whether a doughnut is a cake, a pastry or a dessert. I say⟳ let⟳ them eat⟳ cake / pastry / dessert, our readers know⟳ what a flipping doughnut is! Though nowadays with your cronuts and your duffins, all the rules have⟳ changed.”

“But it wasn’t until he invented the cronut — a croissant/doughnut hybrid — after striking out on his own⟳, that he ascended to star status. Time magazine called it one of the best inventions of 2013, and it birthed several other hybrid pastries including the bruffin (brioche/muffin), the duffin (doughnut/muffin) and the scuffin (scone/muffin).”

“We now have⟳ crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).”

““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. “It’s part doughnut part muffin. […]””

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