bagel
A bagel.
Meanings
Noun
- A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל, ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug-, from Old High German boug ("ring"), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz ("ring"); compare obsolete English bee, Middle English bege, beh, Old English bēag, bēah, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr; also compare dialectal , Beigel. See also beag.
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