muffin worry

plural muffin worries

1. UKslangAn elderly lady's tea party.

   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.

   1874, Eliza Stephenson, Hope Meredith, page 118

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   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, […]

   1864, The Habits of Good Society, page 99