Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cookie of cream-cheese dough spread with filling, such as jam or nuts, and then rolled up.

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  • noun A type of Jewish pastry, which may be filled with various fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.

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  • noun pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Yiddish rogelekh, rugelekh, pl. of rogele, rugele, a rugelach, of Slavic origin; akin to Polish rogal, crescent-shaped bread roll, from róg, horn.]

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Hebrew רוגלית (roglìt, "creeping vine").

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