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–noun
a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.

[Origin: 1750–60; < G Pumpernickel orig., an opprobrious name for anyone considered disagreeable, equiv. to pumper(n) to break wind + Nickel hypocoristic from of Nikolaus Nicholas (cf. nickel); presumably applied to the bread from its effect on the digestive system]
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pum·per·nick·el    Audio Help   (pŭm'pər-nĭk'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A dark, sourish bread made from whole, coarsely ground rye.


[German, probably from dialectal, term of abuse : obsolete Pumper, breaking wind (from dialectal pumpern, to break wind, from Middle High German, to knock, frequentative of pumpen, of imitative origin) + German Nickel, goblin; see nickel.]

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pumpernickel 
"dark rye bread," 1756, from Ger. (Westphalian dialect) Pumpernickel (1663), originally an abusive nickname for a stupid person, from pumpern "to break wind" + Nickel "goblin, lout, rascal," from proper name Niklaus. An earlier Ger. name for it was krankbrot, lit. "sick-bread."

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pumpernickel

noun
bread made of coarse rye flour [syn: black bread

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Pumpernickel

Pump"er*nick`el\, n. [G.] A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
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