cracknel
Americannoun
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a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
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cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.
noun
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a type of hard plain biscuit
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(often plural) crisply fried bits of fat pork
Etymology
Origin of cracknel
1350–1400; Middle English crak ( e ) nele < Middle French *craquenelle, metathetic alteration of craquelin < Middle Dutch crākelinc, equivalent to crāke ( n ) to crack + -linc -ling 1
Example Sentences
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“Good, plenty ’ticky,” cried the savage, gumming his face gloriously and grinding up the biscuit as easily as if it were a cracknel.
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene
He had explained to her among other things how cracknel biscuits were made and why croup was so swift in its action.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
At last, in despair, I rose from my hard couch, donned my uniform, and snatching up a cracknel, strode out of my tent.
From Bill the Minder by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson
For converting a qualified blessing into an unqualified curse," he said bitterly, "you three alarmists take the complete cracknel.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
Dymov hurriedly drank a glass of tea, took a cracknel, and, smiling gently, went to the station.
From The Wife, and other stories by Constance Garnett
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