Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glazed, ring-shaped roll with a tough, chewy texture, made from plain yeast dough that is dropped briefly into nearly boiling water and then baked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
toroidal bread roll that isboiled before it isbaked . - noun tennis, slang A score of 6-0 in a
set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero). - noun slang An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The best place I know to get a bagel is the Bagel Hole in Brooklyn (7th Ave between 12th and 13th Sts), where the bagels are small, dense, moist, and chewy.
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Bagels or other bakery or grocery store: Plain bagel or honey whole-wheat bagel with 1 or 2 Tbsp. low-fat plain or low-fat strawberry cream cheese or whipped smoked salmon cream cheese
Easy, low-calorie recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks 2010
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I had come across a delicious looking, sweet pumpkin bagel recipe over at Have Cake Will Travel a couple months ago and with a small surplus of the main ingredient lying wait in my freezer I made myself a plan.
Archive 2009-01-01 Sarah 2009
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I would like a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese on the side.
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I had come across a delicious looking, sweet pumpkin bagel recipe over at Have Cake Will Travel a couple months ago and with a small surplus of the main ingredient lying wait in my freezer I made myself a plan.
Mmm... Lycopene Sarah 2009
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I know what REAL pizza tastes like, and I know that a bagel is much more than a roll with a hole in the middle.
Archive 2009-01-01 Zenmomma 2009
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: D I love their multigrain bagel and their everything bagel.
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I know what REAL pizza tastes like, and I know that a bagel is much more than a roll with a hole in the middle.
Urban Dictionary Meme Zenmomma 2009
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I live a block away from this place, I would like to know who sourced their crack-cocaine, because +$6 for a bagel is utter insanity.
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As long as the Hollywood "Hebrews" can make a profit ... they're as happy as Mort Zuckerman in bagel heaven!
treeseed commented on the word bagel
Boiling the dough before baking is what gives the wonderful chewy texture. You've never tasted a better bagel than one made in your own kitchen. Try it.
February 3, 2008
sionnach commented on the word bagel
sheep ointment
January 12, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word bagel
Another usage on bageldom: "A stock worth zero."
February 17, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word bagel
In Minnesota they pronounce the vowels of "bag" and "bagel" oppositely from what I'm used to -- i.e. /beɪg/ and /bægəl/ instead of /bæg/ and /beɪgəl/.
January 4, 2011