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DictionarypretzelTwisted baked snack
noun / verb

pretzel

PRET-sul/ˈpretsl/

A twisted baked snack made from dough.

Coarse salt dots the surface of this golden-brown pretzel.

Single golden-brown soft pretzel in traditional three-opening knot, coarse salt flecks and crisp ink contour; modest shadow, no packaging.
Etymology
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Brezel names the knotted baked food. Its proposed deeper ancestry connects it with “arms,” presumably referring to a biscuit shaped like folded arms.

In context

Theo Von98:54
Get another pretzel, I guess.
Ella Langley | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #651

More examples

  • She dips her warm, soft pretzel in mustard.
  • We share a bowl of crunchy pretzels.
  • He pretzels his legs to fit into the tiny seat.

Forms

pretzel · pretzels · pretzeled · pretzeling

Similar words

breadstick
A long, narrow bread snack rather than a knotted one.
cracker
Usually flat and crisp, rather than knotted or soft.