Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Southern Louisiana A square doughnut with no hole: "a New Orleans coffeehouse selling beignets, an insidious Louisianian cousin of the doughnut that exists to get powdered sugar on your face” ( Los Angeles Times).
- n. Southern Louisiana A fritter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fritter composed of various ingredients.
Wiktionary
- n. UK fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling)
- n. US A Louisiana style fried donut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar
Etymologies
- From Louisiana French beignet, from Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet ("fried dough enveloping a food substance"), a diminutive of Old French bigne, bugne, buyne ("lump, swelling"), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo ("swelling, tuber"; > German Bunge), Dutch bonk ("lump, clump"), Gothic (buggja, "tuber, swelling"). Related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion. Also connected to Gaulish *bunia and Gaelic bonnach "cake, biscuit." (Wiktionary)
- French, fritter, of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, a little powdered sugar on some fried dough, you've got what they call a beignet in New Orleans.”
“But what was more disheartening than watching a defense that a lot of people, myself included, believed had shown signs of evolving into a championship caliber unit, be picked apart like a beignet was the Patriots downright un-Patriotic play in all three phrases of the game, from poor throws to busted coverages to missed field goals.”
“There's a tiny lump of foie on the inside of this sweet beignet which is pate a choux dough, deep-fried, right?”
“ A beignet is a kind of fried French-style doughnut. ”
“That’s called a beignet — great with an iced cafe au lait when you’re hammered after a night in the French Quarter. steve duncan Says:”
“Chuckling, he polished off his beignet and brushed sugar from his hands.”
“Breaking off a couple of pieces from the beignet, he tossed them in front of the optimistic pigeons.”
“Servings of the mocha beignet ($10) and the Earl Grey crème brûlée with lemon-lime sorbet ($10) are small enough to not invoke too much guilt.”
“After a few sips, I set the cup down and picked up a beignet.”
“Her small hand reaching out to a cajoling rescuer and then, there she was, powder-dusted like a small caramel beignet for a moment, but then bathed in repeated pours of bottled water to cleanse her, big eyes blinking as she looked around at the hub-bub, and the carnage ... the barely settling back to earth of everything on its surface after being upset by hell quaking below.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beignet’.
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Let Them Eat Cake...
Tasty confectionery trinkets for the listless masses.
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I'm Just a Po'Boy
Food and drink native to Louisiana and nearby surrounding area.
dirty rice, maque choux, mak su, jambalaya, gumbo, etouffee, oysters rockefeller, seafood boil, muffuletta, poor boy, calas, beignet and 15 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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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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Words of the Day
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gorgonglare's list
the best
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Nawlins
Words of New Orleans and Louisana.
jeet, Yat, jazz, krewe, NOLA, camelback, muffuletta, Fat Tuesday, Ramos gin fizz, Mardi Gras, cush-cush, faubourg and 20 more...
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leaven heaven
a haven for lightness
leaven, lever, levity, alleviate, carnival, elevate, legerdemain, mezzo-relievo, relevant, relieve, leprechaun, lung and 36 more...
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Restaurants, Menus and Cookbooks
aperitif, kumquat, aspic, digestif, ceviche, beignet, fritter, zabaglione, spumoni, gyro, pistou, brioche and 15 more...
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Creole "Sophisticated Cuisine"
Recipes from my 1947 (original copyright, 1939) "The United States Regional Cook Book" which is a cookbook divided into recipes from 11 "regions" of the US, plus an "auxiliary" section. I'm highlig...
duchesses, pâté de foie gras, creole bouillabaisse, bisque d'écrevisses, gombo aux crabes ..., jambalaya aux crabes, vol-au-vent bercy, chaurice, la daube, liver à la madame..., salmis de canards..., papabote grillé and 13 more...
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food words
mirepoix, chanterelle, confit, saucier, roux, bouillabaisse, santoku, muffuletta, turducken, en papillote, struffoli, compound butter and 42 more...
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Food Words I Like
endive, chipotle, apricot, gourmand, buongustaio, frappe, frittata, cilantro, cardamom, empanada, hominy, compote and 37 more...
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Time to Make the Donuts
What makes a donut? Deep-fried, sweetish dough. Hole not required.
donut, doughnut, cruller, fritter, Boston cream, Bavarian cream, powdered donut, jelly doughnut, glazed doughnut, donut hole, olicook, bear claw and 39 more...
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Man Cannot Live on Bread Alone
Types of bread products
pumpernickel, sourdough, rye, oatmeal, cornbread, multigrain, challah, naan, pita, tortilla, croissant, anadama and 67 more...
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