brezel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To the same end, old women tottered through the crowd, bowed down under the weight of heavy baskets of salted brezels and hazelnuts, which met ready sale."
- "The Welcome Party on Tuesday, August 14, with free wine, beer, and brezels, and the Come-Together Party on Sunday evening with free beer, have been accepted very well."
- "You can choose between Nut and Almond Cookies, Spicy Slices and Almond Meringue Pyramids, or if your appetite is a bit larger, Ricotta and Apple Pasties with Brazil nuts, and Wheat Dumplings with Mozzarella filling. Then there’s something Christmassy with Cinnamon Stars, Honey Brezels and Spekulatius."
- "In Germany, brezels have for centuries been a common snack food for eating with beer. A brezel is made from a thin roll of bread dough which is bent into a U-shape, the arms twisted together and then folded over to make two loops (as of the arms of a child in prayer, and for this reason they were often given to children as a reward.)"
- "Relishing every moment, ‘Chips’ [Henry Channon] described the Göring party as ‘fantastic’, with ‘roundabouts, cafés with beer and champagne, peasants dancing and “schuplattling”,^([sic]) vast women carrying brezels and beer, a ship, a beerhouse, crowds of gay, laughing people'."
- "The oven had to be free from smells before it could be commissioned to bake bread, bread buns, brezels and even meat."
Etymology
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellusbor. Old High German brēzitella Middle High German brēzel German Brezelbor. English brezel Borrowed from German Brezel.