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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
muesli
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Breakfast is tea and muesli, the muesli made with hot water and milk powder.
▪ Even some brands of muesli contain up to 25 percent sugar.
▪ I made an excuse and settled for tea and muesli.
▪ Mango to teddy bears - new innovations - from has launched two new muesli products under the's banner.
▪ The food being handed round was quite awful - muesli sticks, unsalted nuts, prunes, figs, sliced bananas.
▪ The next morning Mollie and I resumed the polishing and dusting after eating our muesli and boiled eggs.
▪ Yoghurt Muesli is a unique product with a crisp bite aimed at the many consumers who eat yoghurt with muesli.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
muesli

muesli \mues"li\ (m[=u]s"l[-e] or m[=u]z"l[-e]) n. A mixture of untoasted dry cereals, nuts, and fruits, eaten mostly as a breakfast cereal; -- of Swiss origin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
muesli

breakfast dish of oats, fruit, milk, 1926, from Swiss-German, from Old High German muos "meal, mush-like food," from Proto-Germanic *mod-sa-, from PIE root *mad- "moist, wet," with derivatives referring to various qualities of food (see mast (n.2)).

Wiktionary
muesli

n. A breakfast dish based on uncooked rolled oats and fruit.

WordNet
muesli

n. mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits

Wikipedia
Muesli

Muesli ( or ; Swiss German: Müesli , non-Swiss Standard German: Müsli ) is a breakfast and brunch dish based on raw rolled oats and other ingredients including grains, fresh or dried fruits, seeds and nuts, and may be mixed with cow's milk, soy milk, almond milk, other forms of plant milk, yogurt or fruit juice. Developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital, muesli is available in a packaged dry form, ready made, or freshly made.

In Switzerland and Germany it is also eaten as a light evening dish; Birchermüesli complet is muesli with butterbrot and coffee with milk.

Usage examples of "muesli".

Ethan chewed, swallowed and scooped up another spoonful of the muesli, all without further comment.

Each morning I rose and ate the same thing for breakfast, some muesli with bread and fruit, unless it was going to be a particularly long training ride, in which case I had a plate of scrambled egg whites.

First I powered down some muesli, then a plate of three or four eggs, and after that I shoveled in some pasta.

Mrs McLachlan turned her back on him to assess the status of her baking raspberry muffins, Titus slid his muesli bowl over to Ffup.

And she threw the box of muesli and it hit the boot of his car as he drove away and Mrs.

Since this concoction, which we called muesli, was prepared the night before and put in the refrigerator, everyone ate whenever they were ready, however, the table was cleared by noon.

I remember developing a tremendous liking for this cereal mixture, and although we ate muesli every morning, I never grew tired of it.

When Mrs McLachlan turned her back on him to assess the status of her baking raspberry muffins, Titus slid his muesli bowl over to Ffup.

Please, when you come, bring some muesli bars and fruit, something nutritious.

He vows to begin the regime which he has often consideredgoing for a jog each morning before sitting down to a breakfast of muesli and yogurt.

After a shower, he will go into the kitchen where Jeanne will be watching television, her spoon poised over a dish of muesli as she stares at the screen with that look of wonderment which always melts him.

Have a bit of a rest from home-made muesli and debates about the geezer.

She was wearing a very expensive pink T-shirt, pinched from Maud at half-term, over which all her friends had written messages in biro, a puffball skirt, laddered tights and black clumpy stompers, and was now eating muesli out of a cup with a teaspoon.