duffinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

duffin (複数形 duffins)

1. A combination of a doughnut and a muffin.
   • 1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4:

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

   • 2012, Pamela Denney, Food Lovers’ Guide to Memphis: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings, Morris Book Publishing, page 63:

     Take a little time and enjoy deciding between single-serve yogurt cakes (cherries かつ peaches are mixed in the dough), scones, turnovers, muffins, and duffins, a specialty of the house that crosses muffins and cake doughnuts.

   • 2014, Stella Newman, A Pear Shaped Christmas, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2015 February 11, Sun Sentinel, volume 55, number 292, page 1:

     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).

   • 2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

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

   • 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:

     “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. […]”