pretzel

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English

WOTD – 18 August 2007
A pretzel

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

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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Portuguese

Etymology

From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel.

Pronunciation

Noun

pretzel m (plural pretzels)

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

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Etymology

Derived from English pretzel.

Noun

pretzel

  1. pretzel

Swedish

Noun

pretzel c

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

Declension

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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