cruller

or krul·ler

[ kruhl-er ]

/ ˈkrʌl ər /

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noun

a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.

Also called French cruller. a rich, light, raised doughnut, often with a ridged surface and sometimes topped with white icing.

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doughnut, pastry, bread, muffin, scone, bun, Danish, eclair, sinker, dunker

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Origin of cruller

1795–1805, Americanism; < Dutch krul curl + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for cruller

She snatched the cruller off just in time to save it, and the room echoed her laughter.
We Can't Have Everything|Rupert Hughes
So I made no remarks upon the cruller, and finally Ma give a gulp and gasped out the bad news.
Believe You Me!|Nina Wilcox Putnam
Mark seized his third almost boiling cruller and turned to Billy.
Janet of the Dunes|Harriet T. Comstock
"Yes, yes," Billy replied through a mouthful of cruller, hot enough to make an ordinary man groan with pain.
Janet of the Dunes|Harriet T. Comstock

Under low lodges of canvas or bowers of pine branches the women were at work boiling meat or cooking a rude sort of cruller.
The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop|Hamlin Garland

British Dictionary definitions for cruller

cruller

kruller

/ (ˈkrʌlə) /

noun

US and Canadian a light sweet ring-shaped cake, fried in deep fat

Word Origin for cruller

C19: from Dutch krulle, from krullen to curl

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