pumpernickel

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I bought a bag of pumpernickel, a special rye blend, a rye flavouring, and a few bags of cake flour.

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  1. noun A dark, sourish bread made from whole, coarsely ground rye.

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  • They sat across from each other in the dining car, stuffing their faces silly with sour dough, rye, pumpernickel, any kind of bread you can imagine!
  • To finish the dish, you need a thick slice of good black (pumpernickel) bread and one top-quality, very fresh, organic egg. —  FAZED
  • I was thinking maybe king arthurs "pumpernickel" flour might be like this. —  The Fresh Loaf
  • Then change the bread to pumpernickel or rye; add lettuces (try arugula), tomatoes, sliced red onion; try it on a bagel, plain or sprinkled with capers; or in a club sandwich changed up with a slice of smoked salmon in place of bacon. —  The Times-Reporter Home RSS
  • On wheat or rye or pumpernickel, with you, grilled cheese, we are not fickle. —  Chicagoist
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  1. German, probably from dialectal, term of abuse : obsolete Pumper, breaking wind (from dialectal pumpern, to break wind, from Middle High German, to knock, frequentative of pumpen, of imitative origin) + German Nickel, goblin; see nickel.

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  1. from German pumpernickel, formerly also pampernickel, orig. a heavy, blockish fellow, hence applied to a coarse, heavy bread; from pumper, the noise of a heavy fall (from pumpen, fall, plump: see plump and pump), + Nickel, a popular abbreviation of the common personal name Nicolaus, Nicholas: see Nick, nickel.
 

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/ˈpəmpərnɪkɛl/
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