cracknel
[ krak-nl ]
/ ˈkræk nl /
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noun
a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.
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Words nearby cracknel
crackjaw, crackle, crackleware, crackling, crackly, cracknel, crack of dawn, crack of doom, crack on, crackpot, cracksman
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cracknel
/ (ˈkræknəl) /
noun
a type of hard plain biscuit
(often plural) US and Canadian crisply fried bits of fat pork
Word Origin for cracknel
C15: perhaps from Old French craquelin, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, from krāken to crack
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