giffel

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Swedish

gifflar

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gipfel (“peak; summit”) or Austrian German Gipfel (“type of vienna bread”). First attested in 1890.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (hard g) /ˈɡɪfɛl/, (soft g) /ˈjɪfɛl/
  • Audio (Småland); /ˈɡɪfɛl/:(file)
  • Audio (Småland); /ˈjɪfɛl/:(file)

Noun

giffel c

  1. A crescent-shaped pastry (made of e.g. sweet yeast dough, puff pastry, or shortcrust pastry)
    • 2022 January 30, “I dag är det croissantens dag ”, in Barometern:
      Bakverket kommer från Frankrike och görs traditionellt på smördeg som formas till en halvmåne eller giffel. Ibland fylls de med exempelvis choklad.
      The pastry originates from France and is traditionally made from puff pastry shaped into a half-moon or crescent. Sometimes they are filled with, for example, chocolate.
    • 2025 January 31, Camilla Biesbjerg Markussen, “Pizzagifflar ”, in Anna Rosenqvist, transl., Baka riktigt gott bröd, Tønsberg, Norway: Orage AS, page 67:
      Mjuka och välsmakande pizzagifflar, fyllda med tomatsås, mozzarella och kokt skinka.
      Soft and delicious pizza pockets, filled with tomato sauce, mozzarella, and cooked ham.
    1. A crescent-shaped cinnamon roll.
    2. (dated) synonym of croissant (“croissant”)
      • 1947 March 19, Arbetaren‎, page 4:
        I hörnan mot rue Montmartre ligger ett litet kafé, som kallas Croissant (vilket närmast betyder giffel) och där kan man på en marmorplatta läsa: ”Här mördades
        In the corner by rue Montmartre lies a small café called Croissant (which roughly means crescent roll), and there one can read on a marble plaque: "Here was murdered

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