granola
English edit
Etymology edit
By 1967, American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular, with commercial suffix -ola.[1]
Earlier, with a capital G-, it was a proprietary name for a kind of breakfast cereal, registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century.[1] It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863,[2] named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient.[3] The food and name were revived in the 1960s.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊlə
Noun edit
granola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)
- A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
- (slang, countable) Short for crunchy granola.
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breakfast and snack food
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Adjective edit
granola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)
- (chiefly Canada, US, of a person) Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.
- You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.
- 2013 November 21, Jame Schaefer, Tobias Winright, Environmental Justice and Climate Change[1], page 228:
- […] behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.
- 2015 February 13, Dennis Saffran, “The Orwellian Campaign To Project Anti-Vaccination Onto Republicans”, in The Federalist:
- Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.
- 2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones:
- Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “granola (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Cindy Perman (2008) New York Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series), Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 17.
- ^ “The History Of Granola”, in The Nibble, 2015 November 20 (last accessed)
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Noun edit
granola m (plural granolas)
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Spanish edit
Noun edit
granola f (plural granolas)
Further reading edit
- “granola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014