Crossword clues for pretzel
pretzel
- Knotted nosh
- Knot for human consumption?
- Chip alternative
- Twisted fare
- Street vendor's snack
- Stick in the cupboard, maybe
- Snack that's knotty but nice?
- Salty, twisted ballpark snack
- Salted snack often shaped like a knot
- Salted biscuit, shaped like a knot
- Knotted snack
- Ingredient in Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby
- Curly savoury snack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pretzel \Pret"zel\, n. [G. pretzel, bretzel. Cf. Bretzel.] A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, from German Prezel, also Brezel, from Middle High German brezel, prezel, from Old High German brezitella, brecedela, from Medieval Latin *brachitella, presumably a kind of biscuit baked in the shape of folded arms (source also of Italian bracciatella, Old Provençal brassadel), diminutive of Latin bracchiatus "with branches, with arms," from bracchium "arm" (see brace (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot. 2 Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled. vb. (context transitive North American English) To bend, twist, or contort.
WordNet
n. glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
Wikipedia
A pretzel is a type of baked bread product made from dough most commonly shaped into a twisted knot. Pretzels originated in Europe, possibly among monks in the Early Middle Ages. The traditional pretzel shape is a distinctive nonsymmetrical form, with the ends of a long strip of dough intertwined and then twisted back into itself in a certain way ("a pretzel loop"). Pretzels now come in different shapes. Salt is the most common seasoning for pretzels, complementing the washing soda or lye treatment that gives pretzels their traditional "skin" and flavor through the Maillard reaction; other seasonings include sugars, chocolate, glazes, seeds, and/or nuts.
A pretzel is a baked snack.
Pretzel may also refer to:
- Pretzel (story), a 1944 children's short story by Margret Rey
- Pretzel Amusement Ride Company, the dark ride manufacturer
- Pretzel Syndrome
Pretzel is a children's short story written in 1944 by Margret Rey, illustrated by H.A. Rey and first published by Harper & Brothers.
Usage examples of "pretzel".
Tired, achy, irritable, she strode to the kitchen, popped the top on a beer, ripped open a bag of pretzels to go with it.
Then with the cutter that was left over we did purchase, my brothers, all the meat pies, pretzels, cheese-snacks, crisps and chocbars in that mesto, and those too were for the old sharps.
I fathered upon her in those nights the poker chip, the cash register, the juice extractor, the kazoo, the rubber pretzel, the cuckoo clock, the key chain, the dime bank, the pantograph, the bubble pipe, the punching bag both light and heavy, the inkblot, the nose drop, the midget Bible, the slot-machine slug, and many other useful and humane cultural artifacts, as well as some thousands of children of the ordinary sort.
He rounded up a separate team to interview each of the half dozen pushcart vendors here, some selling coffee and doughnuts at the moment, others setting up for lunches of hot dogs, pretzels, gyros and falafel pita-bread sandwiches.
Vendors with carts instead of tubs sell hot pretzels and tonics and those underboiled franks Pemulis likes to have them put the works on.
Sometimes, even in clear air, it could encounter a microburst strong enough to twist a support truss into the shape of a pretzel.
Wal-Mart is able to roll back prices because of the new efficiencies continuously being created by its high-tech distribution system, which minutely tracks everything from power tools to pretzels as they travel from supplier to distribution center to store at a pace no other retailer can match.
Then they all, even the most dignified and best-dressed dowagers, walked about munching the pretzels while they shopped at the other midway joints or watched the sideshow or sat down to have their salty palms read by Magpie Maggie Hag.
Four pretzels ago, Morgan had vowed another would not pass his lips and, standing at the window, he started shredding the two in his hands, Within seconds, his new friends, the birds, started to gather as he threw tiny pieces to the ground.
She would have to make and sell two hundred pretzels, just to pay their rent.
She ignored the requests for more Pretzels as she peered into each window.
The last thing I knew, you were going to sell your pretzels down at the depot.
Filling her own plate, she put one of his discarded pretzels on it and sat in the chair by the window.
Two attractive black women were approaching from the opposite direction, coffee and pretzels in their hands.
If any residents of Gull Haven wished for something more cultured than beer and pretzels for an evening out, they went to Rivershire, over the bridge on the mainland.