While I on the phone, complaining to my best friend about possibly putting on some weight over the winter season, I mentioned a little problem with a certain pair of pants. For any woman who gains weight in her lower back/hips (as opposed to the stomach or thighs), this problem - and the way it sort of morphs the body in a certain region - is all-too-familiar.
"Oh, you mean the Muffin Top?" she asked me. "Yeah, the Muffin Top is bad..."
Ok, I have never heard this term before (remember, we don't speak English around here, and getting lingo to cross the ocean is a bit complicated), but I fell in love with it at once. Sure, it haunts me 24/7, but I think it might just be the greatest linguistic creation yet. I might be behind the times, but only by two years or so.
Urban Dictionary suggests this is a "fat chick" problem, but the previously linked NY Daily News (always accurate news source, I know) shows images proving the contrary. My deep, analytic study would suggest that it is often an issue resulting more from the positioning (aka "Low rise") of the pants than from their actual size.
I personally avoid wearing pants that are too small (duh, they're uncomfortable) but have a slight Muffin Top issue with one pair in particular. I can't quite figure out why this happens, but you can be sure I am never wearing those pants again. The constant voice chanting "Muf-fin Muf-fin Muf-fin" is enough to coivince me it's just not worth it.
UPDATE: I just read that the male version of this is called Stud-Muffin Top. This just gets better and better.
My friend Sue and I cracked up when we first heard the definintion of muffin top. Now when I call or e-mail her, I'll say, "Hey, Muffin-top, it's Muffin-top2!" It's hard to keep the song"The muffin Man" outta your head as well...
So... you know what a whale-tail is, then, right?
I'm guessing it involves a string, and the way it sticks out of pants. Am I right?
Do we call them thongs? I think we call them thongs. Frenchies call them strings. And they call flip-flops thongs. So I'm all confused.
hiya...working in cannes at a conference I shared your "muffin top" vocab with some frenchie girls and one italian...we were giggling the whole time finding many "muffin tops" (as well as the stud version) among the conference participants...they totally got it!
Awesome. I bet there were tons of Muffin Tops in Cannes.