Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Northeastern, Central Atlantic, & Upper Northern U.S. A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.
- n. Chiefly New England & Pennsylvania An unraised doughnut, usually twisted but also shaped into rings or oblongs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cake cut from rolled dough made of eggs, butter, sugar, flour, etc., fried to crispness in boiling lard.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
Etymologies
- From obsolete Dutch krulle-koken, rolled-up cake, from Middle Dutch crulle-koken, to curl, from crulle, curly. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We lighted dark halls; closed the "cruller" bakeries in tenement-house cellars that had caused the loss of no end of lives, for the crullers were boiled in fat in the early morning hours while the tenants slept, and when the fat was spilled in the fire their peril was awful.”
“Also, I should thank Orin for informing me about what a French cruller is.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ilya May Be Right About the Context of the Pew Poll
“Are you the type who walks by a Dunkin' Donuts shop without so much as a sideways glance -- but find yourself in the Monday morning meeting intensely reaching for a sugar-glazed cruller pastry?”
The Huffington Post: Karen Leland: Bust Your Bad Small Business Eating Habits
“Yesterday morning, after waking up, I put on the previous day's pants and shirt, went to Dunkin' Donuts for a cruller and coffee.”
“In fact, I doubt I'd have to linger in an L.A. doughnut shop for long to overhear an elderly customer denounce the unmitigated evils of immigration while devouring a delicious Cambodian-made cruller.”
Mmm... Immigration Doughnuts, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The subject was read his rights and declined representation of counsel, but he did ask for a pair of sunglasses and a cruller.”
“On the other hand, imagine I ask for your reaction to the phrase “french cruller.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Pew Survey Respondents Were Not Reacting to “Words Without Context”
“A press credential comes with a daily $20 food allowance at the media center's commissary, and I used it to purchase a restorative late afternoon cruller and ice tea.”
“Not to mention people making rhubarbs over bars that are cruller and meaner than long johns?”
Michelle Malkin’s Victory Over Doughnut Terrorists « Antiwar.com Blog
“The pastries are an impossible dough-based mouth-watering sugary chocolate blackberry cream cheese confection that look like that, yes, like a multidimensional cruller.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cruller’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 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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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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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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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 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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Dutch Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cockatoo, furlough, holster, trawl, cruller, brackish, buckwheat, crimp, floss, klompen, catkin, grabble and 87 more...
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William Steig
Linguistic exuberance from the childrens' books of William Steig
palsy-walsy, squoze, goosewit, oodles, as real as peas a..., clabber cheese, feeling his onions, lard, noggin, bantling, alackaday, flabbergasted and 55 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cruller.
dbekeny AUNT EM
Well, don't start posing for it now. Here,
here -- can't work on an empty stomach.
Have some crullers.
Jul 9, 2010
yarb She saw the street cleaners sweeping the streets and she looked in at the bakery on Parsnip Lane and saw the bakers taking hot loaves of pumpernickel out of the oven and powdering crullers with sugar dust.
- William Steig, The Amazing Bone Sep 29, 2008