English Explanatory Dictionary

bagel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
  2. A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
  3. An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
verb
  1. To achieve a score of 6–0 (as the winner) in a tennis set.
  2. To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
noun
  1. Alternative form of bagle.

Pronunciation

/ˈbeɪ̯.ɡəl/ [ˈbeɪ̯.ɡɫ̩] en-us-bagel.ogg /ˈbɛ.ɡəl/ /ˈbæɡ.əl/ [ˈbæɡ.l̩] [ˈbɛː.ɡɫ̩] [ˈba̝ɡ.ɫ̩] [ˈbeː.ɡɫ̩] en-ca-bagel.ogg /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯.ɡəl/ [ˈbæ̝ɪ̯.ɡl̩]

Word forms

bagel bagels beigel bageling bagelling bageled bagelled

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 dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.

Synonyms

JAP

Related words

Beuge beugen Beugung Biege biegen Biegung donut doughnut torus toroid bagel hound

Derived words

bagel belt bagel bender bagel girl bagel head bagelry cragel eggel everything bagel Montreal bagel pizza bagel
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