Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chiefly Northeastern, Central Atlantic, & Upper Northern US A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.
- noun Chiefly New England & Pennsylvania An unraised doughnut, usually twisted but also shaped into rings or oblongs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cake cut from rolled dough made of eggs, butter, sugar, flour, etc., fried to crispness in boiling lard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
donut /doughnut in the form of a twisted ring
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We lighted dark halls; closed the "cruller" bakeries in tenement-house cellars that had caused the loss of no end of lives, for the crullers were boiled in fat in the early morning hours while the tenants slept, and when the fat was spilled in the fire their peril was awful.
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Are you the type who walks by a Dunkin' Donuts shop without so much as a sideways glance -- but find yourself in the Monday morning meeting intensely reaching for a sugar-glazed cruller pastry?
Karen Leland: Bust Your Bad Small Business Eating Habits Karen Leland 2011
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The subject was read his rights and declined representation of counsel, but he did ask for a pair of sunglasses and a cruller.
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On the other hand, imagine I ask for your reaction to the phrase “french cruller.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Pew Survey Respondents Were Not Reacting to “Words Without Context” 2010
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In fact, I doubt I'd have to linger in an L.A. doughnut shop for long to overhear an elderly customer denounce the unmitigated evils of immigration while devouring a delicious Cambodian-made cruller.
Mmm... Immigration Doughnuts, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Are you the type who walks by a Dunkin' Donuts shop without so much as a sideways glance -- but find yourself in the Monday morning meeting intensely reaching for a sugar-glazed cruller pastry?
Karen Leland: Bust Your Bad Small Business Eating Habits Karen Leland 2011
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Also, I should thank Orin for informing me about what a French cruller is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ilya May Be Right About the Context of the Pew Poll 2010
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Yesterday morning, after waking up, I put on the previous day's pants and shirt, went to Dunkin' Donuts for a cruller and coffee.
More Letters to 52/250 Prompts Christian Bell 2011
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On the other hand, imagine I ask for your reaction to the phrase “french cruller.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Reactions to Words Without Context 2010
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In fact, I doubt I'd have to linger in an L.A. doughnut shop for long to overhear an elderly customer denounce the unmitigated evils of immigration while devouring a delicious Cambodian-made cruller.
Mmm... Immigration Doughnuts, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
yarb commented on the word cruller
She saw the street cleaners sweeping the streets and she looked in at the bakery on Parsnip Lane and saw the bakers taking hot loaves of pumpernickel out of the oven and powdering crullers with sugar dust.
- William Steig, The Amazing Bone
September 29, 2008
dbekeny commented on the word cruller
AUNT EM
Well, don't start posing for it now. Here,
here -- can't work on an empty stomach.
Have some crullers.
July 9, 2010