bagel
/ˈbeɪ̯.ɡəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.18 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
noun
Alternative form of bagle.
Example Sentences
- "The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone."
- "“He’s so adorable, Aaron. Part beagle, part basset hound.” “A bagel. Very appropriate.”"
- "In October, Allan and Rebecca began to care for Marty’s dog Phil more often and adopted the “bagel” (basset and beagle mix breed) when the time came."
- "The Bagel isn’t necessarily a popular dog, but they seem to appear often enough to be worth mentioning."
- "The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness."
- "Linus was half basset and half beagle hound, thus a bagel."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European *bʰowgʰ-o-sder. Proto-Germanic *baugaz Proto-West Germanic *baug Old High German boug Middle High German boucder. Yiddish בייגל (beygl)bor. English bagel Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”). Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare Austrian German Beugel and dialectal Beigel. See also beag.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bouc, boug, *baug, *baugaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbeɪ̯.ɡəl/
- British English: /ˈbeɪ̯.ɡəl/