kipfel
/ˈkɪp.fəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.
Example Sentences
- "Bake the kipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven."
- "The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and a kipfel’."
- "From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken, kipfel, or nut rolls."
Etymology
From German Kipfel, diminutive of Kipf (“wagon post”), from Old High German kipfa, chipf, from Latin cippus (“post”).