Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mixture of usually untoasted rolled oats and dried fruit, often used as a breakfast cereal.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mixture of untoasted dry cereals, nuts, and fruits, eaten mostly as a breakfast cereal; -- of Swiss origin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
Etymologies
- Germanic: from Alemannic German Müesli, diminutive of Mues ("mashed dish"); compare moose ("stew"). (Wiktionary)
- German dialectal, diminutive of German Mus, mush, from Middle High German muos, a meal, mushlike food, from Old High German. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The joke, alas, was wasted on her, but it did set me to thinking what a curious term muesli is.”
“Dietitian's tip: The original breakfast cereal called muesli - a German word meaning "mixture" - combined rolled oats with nuts and fruit.”
“You then customise the base to make precisely the kind of muesli you want.”
“It's not enough to assume that if you eat the right kind of muesli and go to first nights of Harold Pinter revivals and read the Independent occasionally that the drug barons of Afghanistan are going to go away.”
“Hemp seed whole, hulled or crushed for oil are used in food products such as muesli bars, cakes, breads, biscuits, butter paste, non-dairy milk, tofu, cheese and ice cream.”
“Half of the nuts were consumed as a snack and half incorporated into foods such as muesli, muffins and pesto.”
“The breakfast table was as usual crowded with brown bread toasts, orange juice, fruits and some muesli.”
“It's on the edge of Poundbury between the Dorchester new-town's pseudo Georgian heart and Dorset Cereals' muesli factory.”
“However, this recent thread had me vomiting into my muesli.”
“For me, it's never been about being the most original cook," the 48-year-old says over a breakfast of muesli with organic milk and the first crop of local strawberries at her flagship Berlin restaurant, Das Speisezimmer The Dining Room.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muesli’.
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the curious incident of the dog in th...
words from a novel by mark haddon
dog, garden fork, Wellington, prime, maths, clench, The Hound of the ..., police, dead, bread-slicing mac..., groaning, drawn and 126 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 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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food and drinks
honey, breakfast, omelette, cheese, salami, hot dog, sausage, turkish salami, butter, olives, muesli, tofurkey
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 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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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 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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Bill Bryson's Disagreeable Words
These are words that Mr. Bryson thinks sound especially bad, or are wasted on what they are supposed to describe.
muesli, haggis, pineapple, grapefruit, ketchup, cashew, pretzel, semolina, fajita, marzipan, anorak, spatula and 6 more...
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Zee Germans
(from Snatch):
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?...gesiebeautomat, schadenfreude, verboten, weltschmerz, blitzkrieg, ansatz, farkakte, beergarden, alpenglow, angst, anschluss, autobahn and 53 more...
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thinking about it
Don't mind me, I'm just considering a few possibilities.
hinterland, echelon, muesli, akimbo, abecedarian, finesse, anorak, regent
Tweets
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