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crack⋅nel

  [krak-nl]
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–noun
1. a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
2. cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.
Compare scrapple.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME crak(e)nele < MF *craquenelle, metathetic alter. of craquelin < MD crākelinc, equiv. to crāke(n) to crack + -linc -ling 1
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crack·nel   (krāk'nəl)   
n.  

  1. A hard crisp biscuit.

  2. cracknels Crisp bits of fried pork fat; cracklings.


[Middle English crakenele, alteration of Old French craquelin, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, small cake, from krāken, to crack; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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