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.

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Origin of bagel

1
1930–35; <Yiddish beygl; compare dialectal German Beugel<Germanic *baug- ring (see bee2) + *-il- noun suffix

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British Dictionary definitions for bagel

bagel

beigel

/ (ˈbeɪɡəl) /


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

Origin of bagel

1
C20: from Yiddish beygel, ultimately from Old High German boug ring

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