Muffineer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Muffineer is a noun meaning A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
Meaning
A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A dish for keeping muffins hot.
Example Sentences
The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.
He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.
Word Forms
- muffineers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include muff, muffinery, muffin, minimuffin, muffetee, muffettee.
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