Meaning

A combination of a doughnut and a muffin..

Example Sentences

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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• duffins

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When Should You Use Duffin?

Use duffin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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