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muffin worry

noun

Definitions

  1. An elderly lady's tea party.

    • But Benedict has not only changed his manner and his habits, he has got new duties, and where his wife goes he may go, and ought to go. He can no longer claim exemption from solemn dinners, from weary muffin-worries, […]
    • I wish she was at the bottom of the sea, or else having muffin worries in her musty old London lodgings — anything but coming here and turning everything into gall and vinegar.

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