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/ˈpɹɛt.səl/ · noun
(cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot..
When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler
Outside, the little birds on the telegraph wires looked in at the moving picture and smiled at one another. Some even wept. Then they flew down into the street and simply raved over a stale pretzel, ten days dead.
he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy
They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.
Use pretzel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pretzel means (cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot..
Common synonyms include bend, twist, contort, pretzelize.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler
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