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pretzeling

pretzeling is the present participle and gerund of pretzel.

Meaning of pretzel

Verb

pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle (US) pretzeling or (UK) pretzelling, simple past and past participle (US) pretzeled or (UK) pretzelled)

  1. (Canada, US, informal, transitive) To bend, twist, or contort.
    • They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.

See all 3 meanings of pretzel

Forms of pretzeling

alternative formpretzelling

Questions about pretzeling

What is pretzeling the present participle and gerund of?
Pretzeling is the present participle and gerund of pretzel.

Words near pretzeling in the dictionary

  1. pretzel style
  2. pretzel syndrome
  3. pretzel up
  4. pretzel-bender
  5. pretzeled
  6. pretzeling
  7. pretzelise
  8. pretzelised
  9. pretzelises
  10. pretzelising
  11. pretzelization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretzeling (page history and authors); pretzel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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