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cracknel

/ˈkɹæk.nəl/

cracknel noun: a hard, crisp or crunchy cake or biscuit.

Noun

cracknel (plural cracknels)

  1. A hard, crisp or crunchy cake or biscuit.
    • I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208
  2. (in plural) Crackling (fried pork fat).

Forms of cracknel

pluralcracknels

Origin of cracknel

From Middle English crakenelle, craknel, krakenelle, apparently an alteration of Middle French craquelin.

Questions about cracknel

What does cracknel mean?
Cracknel means a hard, crisp or crunchy cake or biscuit.
What part of speech is cracknel?
Cracknel is a noun.
How do you pronounce cracknel?
Cracknel is pronounced /ˈkɹæk.nəl/.
What is the plural of cracknel?
The plural of cracknel is cracknels.

Words near cracknel in the dictionary

  1. crackly
  2. crackmans
  3. crackmeter
  4. crackmeters
  5. crackne
  6. cracknel
  7. Cracknell
  8. cracknels
  9. crackness
  10. cracknut
  11. cracknuts

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