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bagel

[ bey-guhl ]

noun

  1. a leavened, doughnut-shaped, firm-textured roll, with a brownish glazed surface, made of dough first poached and then baked.


bagel

/ ˈbeɪɡəl /

noun

  1. a hard ring-shaped bread roll, characteristic of Jewish baking


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bagel1

1930–35; < Yiddish beygl; compare dialectal German Beugel < Germanic *baug- ring ( bee 2 ) + *-il- noun suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bagel1

C20: from Yiddish beygel , ultimately from Old High German boug ring

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Example Sentences

He orders a toasted bagel and asks to charge it to a room he is certainly not staying in.

Teachout took a question on redistricting and another on her favorite kind of bagel.

He puts a bagel in the conveyer toaster, but it never comes out the other end.

He reaches in—and pulls out the charred bagel, one half at a time.

Just this morning, while enjoying breakfast at a chain bagel shop, I was entertained with 30 minutes of uninterrupted jazz.

But donner and bagel, what need you be so curious about the life of this boy, who is neither your bloot nor kin?

The traffic was mostly bicycling bankers stopping for a fresh bagel on their way down to the business district.

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