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pretzel

English edit

WOTD – 18 August 2007
 
A pretzel

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Etymology edit

From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛtsəl

Noun edit

pretzel (plural pretzels)

  1. (cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
  2. (by extension) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.

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Verb edit

pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle pretzelling or (US) pretzeling, simple past and past participle pretzelled or (US) pretzeled)

  1. (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To bend, twist, or contort.
    Synonyms: bend, twist, contort
    They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.

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Etymology edit

From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel.

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Noun edit

pretzel m (plural pretzels)

  1. pretzel (toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot)

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Etymology edit

Derived from English pretzel.

Noun edit

pretzel

  1. pretzel

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Noun edit

pretzel c

  1. a pretzel
    Synonym: (informal) (salt)kringla

Declension edit

Declension of pretzel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pretzel pretzeln pretzels, pretzlar pretzlarna
Genitive pretzels pretzelns pretzels, pretzlars pretzlarnas

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