bran muffin
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- noun
- /bræn ˈmʌfɪn/
:
muffin de salvado
- You got cold cuts, bagels, coffee, lox, celery tonic and bran muffins.
- oat bran muffins
- eat a bran muffin
- bran muffins and coffee
Examples
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A typical bran muffin has more than 400 calories and up to 15 grams of fat, with most of the calories coming from sugar and refined flour.
Blog text (15) -
I enjoyed a delicious bran muffin with my breakfast this morning.
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Can I get a bran muffin, please?
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I hope they have bran muffins.
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A bran muffin in the morning would help that.
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A bran muffin in the morning would help with that.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yeah, and I'll have a toasted bran muffin with butter.
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I took the liberty of picking you up a calcium-enriched smoothie and a bran muffin.
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Eating my oatmeal and raisin bran muffin with a big glass of heart-healthy OJ for breakfast every morning.
Blog text (11) -
Since I had to be at the school for the SATs very early in the morning after the bookstore reading, I'd have the pleasure of baking fresh corn, blueberry, and oat bran muffins at four A.M. Saturday.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A small, round sweet bread baked in a paper cup
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Morphology
The meaning 'a muffin made with bran' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bran' (outer layers of grains) + 'muffin' (individual sweet bread). This noun–noun compound follows a common, transparent pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Bran muffin is a muffin made with bran, the hard outer part of grain that has a lot of fiber. Because people used bran to make food more filling and good for digestion, a bran muffin came to mean a 'healthier' kind of muffin.