cruller

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Aunt Miriam tenderly put aside the hair from her forehead and kissed it again, but the cruller was burning and she went back to the kettle.

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  1. noun Chiefly Northeastern, Central Atlantic, & Upper Northern U.S. A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.
  2. noun Chiefly New England & Pennsylvania An unraised doughnut, usually twisted but also shaped into rings or oblongs.

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  • I bought an apple fritter and a cruller, but the apple fritter was gone almost before I got back into the car. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
  • He looked at me for a moment, perhaps hoping I would loosen up and hand him a fistful of Krugerands, but as I said, that cruller was weighing heavily on my mind and I did not relent. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
  • Now, there's no one to vet an amorous cruller or other off-color brand message produced by anyone with a camera from being viewed by millions of people on the Web. —  ClickZ News
  • Word to your cruller Vanilla Ice + ice coffee = karaoke mayhem at Copley —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Ah, a tip o 'the ol' cruller to liz over at the miami blog for this nugget: —  Firedoglake
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  1. From obsolete Dutch krulle-koken, rolled-up cake, from Middle Dutch crulle-koken, to curl, from crulle, curly.
 

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