muffin worry
Muffin worry is a delightfully specific piece of old British slang describing a genteel tea party hosted by and for elderly ladies — the kind of gathering that involves fine china, finger sandwiches, and polite conversation at a volume no one under sixty can hear.
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Muffin worry is a delightfully specific piece of old British slang describing a genteel tea party hosted by and for elderly ladies — the kind of gathering that involves fine china, finger sandwiches, and polite conversation at a volume no one under sixty can hear. The phrase evokes an entire world of Victorian and Edwardian social ritual where the muffin was a key teatime treat and 'worry' was used in the sense of fussing over or attending to something. Affectionately quaint and basically extinct in modern usage.
Grandmother's Saturday afternoon muffin worry had been a fixture in that parlor for thirty years before anyone dared suggest meeting at a café instead.
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(UK, slang) An elderly lady's tea party.
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