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brezel

brezel is the rare form of pretzel.

Meaning of pretzel

Noun

pretzel (plural pretzels)

  1. A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
    • When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler1914, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Our Philadelphia, Chapter 19
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
    • he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy1901, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch/Chapter 6, Chapter 6

See all 3 meanings of pretzel

Forms of brezel

pluralbrezels

Origin of brezel

Borrowed from German Brezel.

Questions about brezel

What is brezel the rare form of?
Brezel is the rare form of pretzel.

Words near brezel in the dictionary

  1. breying
  2. breyite
  3. Breyon
  4. breys
  5. Breytenbach
  6. brezel
  7. brezel wood
  8. brezels
  9. Brezhnev
  10. Brezhnev Doctrine
  11. Brezhnevian

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