Pretzel

Quick meaning: Pretzel is a noun meaning (cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.

Meaning

(cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, by extension) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
2. (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To bend, twist, or contort.

Example Sentences

They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.

he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy

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.

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

Word Forms

• pretzels
• pretzeling
• pretzelling
• pretzeled
• pretzelled

Synonyms for pretzel

Depending on context, synonyms include bend, twist, contort, pretzelize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bretzel, pletzel, pletzl, crackerbread, kringle, bierock.

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