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crul⋅ler

[kruhl-er]

–noun

1.	a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.

2.	Also called French cruller. a rich, light, raised doughnut, often with a ridged surface and sometimes topped with white icing.

Also, kruller.

Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism; < D krul curl + -er ¹

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crul·ler (krŭl'ər) Pronunciation Key
n.

Chiefly Northeastern, Central Atlantic, & Upper Northern U.S. A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.
Chiefly New England & Pennsylvania An unraised doughnut, usually twisted but also shaped into rings or oblongs.

[From obsolete Dutch krulle-koken, rolled-up cake, from Middle Dutch crulle-koken, to curl, from crulle, curly.]

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cruller

1818, Amer.Eng., apparently from Du. cruller, from crullen "to curl."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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cruller
noun
small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts

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Cruller

Crul"ler\ (kr[u^]l"l[~e]r), n. [Cf. Curl.] A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

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