Meaning

2 senses
  1. (US)A snack food resembling a biscuit and a muffin.

  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture.

    buffin gowns

Origin

Named for its resemblance to buff leather. Blend of biscuit + muffin

Named for its resemblance to buff leather.

Blend of biscuit + muffin

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Forms

plural: buffins
Singularbuffin
Pluralbuffins

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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