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.

bagel

/ ˈbeɪɡəl /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagel¹

1930–35; < Yiddish beygl; compare dialectal German Beugel < Germanic *baug- ring ( bee ² ) + *-il- noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of bagel¹

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

Example Sentences

The result is an oversize, floppy version of a classic bagel with lox.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Lotus Two Slice Toaster – My trusty $20 toaster recently gave up the ghost, and I didn’t realize how much I’d been settling until I dropped a bagel into the Lotus two-slice.

Read more on Salon

The index measures price movements for three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel and an avocado.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Popular items shipped at Thanksgiving time include bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and chocolate babka, typically ordered to be enjoyed the day after the feast and through that weekend, Russ Federman said.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

I woke up early on game day and baked heart-shaped strawberry cream scones and assembled smoked-salmon and salmon-roe bagel sandwiches from a Russ & Daughters order placed the day before.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal