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| —n | |
| chiefly (US), (Canadian) a square deep-fried pastry served hot and sprinkled with icing sugar | |
| [C19: French bignet filled pastry, from buyne, literally: bump or lump] | |
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Beignet
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
beignet
"fritter," 1835, from Fr. beignet "fritter, eggroll, doughnut" (14c.), from O.Fr. buigne "bump, lump," from a Gmc. source (cf. M.H.G. bunge "clod, lump"), or from Gaul. *bunia (cf. Gael. bonnach).
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