muffineer
nounEtymology From muffin + -eer.
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A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
- 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.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII:
- The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the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.1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small antique silverware:
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- The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England:
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Obsolete A dish for keeping muffins hot.