bagel
[bey-guh l]
- 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
1930–35; < Yiddish beygl; compare dialectal German Beugel < Germanic *baug- ring (see bee2) + *-il- noun suffix
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Contemporary Examples
Teachout took a question on redistricting and another on her favorite kind of bagel.
He puts a bagel in the conveyer toaster, but it never comes out the other end.
For better or worse, jazz is turning into the music you hear when you drink coffee and munch on a donut or bagel.
Is that mass of cream cheese you put on a bagel a schemer or a shmeer?
There was one bagel, which a woman snapped up for her 10-year-old son.
Historical Examples
But donner and bagel, what need you be so curious about the life of this boy, who is neither your bloot nor kin?
Quentin DurwardSir Walter Scott
bagel
beigel
- a hard ring-shaped bread roll, characteristic of Jewish baking
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Word Origin
C20: from Yiddish beygel, ultimately from Old High German boug ring
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Word Origin and History for bagel
n.
1919, from Yiddish beygl, from Middle High German boug- "ring, bracelet," from Old High German boug "a ring," related to Old English beag "ring" (in poetry, an Anglo-Saxon lord was beaggifa "ring-giver"), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz-, from PIE root *bheug- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (cf. Old High German biogan "to bend;" see bow (v.)).
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