pretzels

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
According to the company's Web site, pretzels are the world's oldest snack.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Men in work clothes bellied up to the bar, where peanuts, pretzels, and popcorn were offered for free and the television was tuned in to a basketball game. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • Soon they came to a section of the forest where a number of medium-sized trees had their trunks twisted into pretzels, and stones were lying on the ground in rather squashed condition. —  Up In A Heaval
  • He looked up and down the bright wide aisle of the mall — music and surf wear and big salty pretzels, a tight orbit of vacant worlds, all paying eight bucks an hour. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
  • Yesterday I made boiled pretzels from Horn (p. 121), which are basically slightly sweet bagels: you fashion sweet yeast-based dough into pretzels, allow them to rise, boil them for —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Grab some pretzels -- premium or store brand -- and read on! —  Fool.com: The Motley Fool
 

Tags

pretzels hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 6 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recently looked up

thailand · neuropathic · prattle · clansman · inanimate

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence