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  • noun Alternative spelling of bagel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

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Examples

  • A make-up wearing Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the hit 'Harry Potter' film series, staggered around town with cross-dressing friends in search of a late night "beigel" - that's British for bagel.

    Rupert Grint Staggers Around In Makeup, Searching For Bagels (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Though the East End is now mostly populated by later-arriving immigrants, a few bakers of the British "beigel" -- two of them on Brick Lane -- are lingering "vestiges of the area's Jewish past."

    The Story of a Bread's Long Rise 2008

  • At each house they are given small, fresh-baked chola, bun, or beigel.

    Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago Hannah Trager

  • O'Leary Square and you might be able to pick up a beigel (or a slice of cheesecake) from

    diamond geezer 2008

  • You dont want to spend the rest of your life looking back with disgust at every picnic and curry you shared, regretting the times of ringing in sick to spend the day in bed together, recalling festivals, boat trips, backstage passes, crazy French bars, trips to the all-night beigel shop at five in the morning, the night the Tories were kicked out, the bewildered newspaper man in the snow, as merely part of a marathon mistake.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

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