bagel
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- beigel (UK)
Etymology [edit]
From Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from Old High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baug- (“ring”) plus Proto-Germanic *-il (“noun suffix”); cf. obsolete English bee (“metal ring, bracelet”), Middle English bege, beh, Old English bēag, bēah, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr, all from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”); also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
bagel (plural bagels)
- A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- 2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, BBC:
- The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone.
- 2011 January 30, Piers Newbery, “Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final”, BBC:
- (slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
Translations [edit]
toroidal bread roll
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