Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A glazed, ring-shaped roll with a tough, chewy texture, made from plain yeast dough that is dropped briefly into nearly boiling water and then baked.
Wiktionary
- n. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- n. tennis, slang A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- n. slang An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Etymologies
- From Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from Old High German bouc, boug- ("ring, bracelet"), from Old High German boug ("ring"), from Proto-Germanic *baug- (“ring”) plus Proto-Germanic *-il (“noun suffix”); cf. obsolete English bee ("metal ring, bracelet"), Middle English bege, beh, Old English bēag, bēah, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr, all from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”); also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish beygl, from Middle High German *böugel, diminutive of bouc, ring, from Old High German boug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The best place I know to get a bagel is the Bagel Hole in Brooklyn (7th Ave between 12th and 13th Sts), where the bagels are small, dense, moist, and chewy.”
“Bagels or other bakery or grocery store: Plain bagel or honey whole-wheat bagel with 1 or 2 Tbsp. low-fat plain or low-fat strawberry cream cheese or whipped smoked salmon cream cheese”
Easy, low-calorie recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks
“I know what REAL pizza tastes like, and I know that a bagel is much more than a roll with a hole in the middle.”
“I would like a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese on the side.”
“: D I love their multigrain bagel and their everything bagel.”
“I live a block away from this place, I would like to know who sourced their crack-cocaine, because +$6 for a bagel is utter insanity.”
“I had come across a delicious looking, sweet pumpkin bagel recipe over at Have Cake Will Travel a couple months ago and with a small surplus of the main ingredient lying wait in my freezer I made myself a plan.”
“As long as the Hollywood "Hebrews" can make a profit ... they're as happy as Mort Zuckerman in bagel heaven!”
“Would it spontaniously combust? what if I call my bagel a “bread casserole”, would it be safe then?”
“Peggy 6: a one-man moveon. org energizer bunny. funny -- liberals hate monopolies -- except when they grace (monopolize) a blog with their wisdom. like the Mon. morning 20-min bagel meeting that turns into 2 hours of kvetching about everything from a to z.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bagel’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Bagel and such
bagel, ogle, boggle, toggle, snuggle, wiggle, straggle, haggle, inveigle, seagull, struggle
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Minnesota
minnesota, Minnesota, Twin Cities, gophers, Pipestone, Jolly Green Giant, Nimrod, Crow Wing River, Saint Paul, Saint Urho, Paul Bunyan, Iron Range and 39 more...
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Hummus
Ingredients, variations, folklore, things (and people) to eat it with, etc.
hommus, tahini, lemon juice, sweet paprika, hummus, celery stick, mushroom, bagel, ruzuzu, salt, olive, garlic and 41 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Wonderful bread
baguette, bialy, pumpernickel, boule, brioche, challah, chapati, cornbread, dosa, mantou, flatbread, focaccia and 102 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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bearfax december 2006
opulent, spot, kaffee, sift, cedar, pushy, buckwheat, zydeco, chemeketa, hood, blood, food and 107 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Personally Unpronounceable
thus, tentatively, bagel, clinton, farcical, gerund, franchised, condescension, entendre, posthumously, swatch, swathe and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bagel.
milosrdenstvi In Minnesota they pronounce the vowels of "bag" and "bagel" oppositely from what I'm used to -- i.e. /beɪg/ and /bægəl/ instead of /bæg/ and /beɪgəl/. Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear Another usage on bageldom: "A stock worth zero." Feb 16, 2010
sionnach sheep ointment Jan 12, 2009
treeseed Boiling the dough before baking is what gives the wonderful chewy texture. You've never tasted a better bagel than one made in your own kitchen. Try it. Feb 3, 2008