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zwieback

zwieback noun: a form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.

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Noun

zwieback (countable and uncountable, plural zwiebacks)

  1. A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.
    • Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel
      She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off,
      And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off.

zwieback meaning in Tamil and Urdu

zwieback in Tamil

உலரொட்டி, இனிப்பாகவும், முட்டைச் செறிவுடையதுமாக, சூட்டில் வாட்டி, துண்டுகளாக்கி, மொறுமொறுப்பானப் பதமடைந்த உரொட்டி

zwieback in Urdu

سینکی روٹی کا ٹکڑا

Forms of zwieback

pluralzwiebacks

Origin of zwieback

From German Zwieback, from zwie- (“twi-, two-”) + backen (“to bake”) (i.e. “twice-baked”), a calque of Italian biscotto (but not to be confused with it).

Questions about zwieback

What does zwieback mean?
Zwieback means a form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.
What is zwieback in Tamil?
Zwieback in Tamil is உலரொட்டி, இனிப்பாகவும், முட்டைச் செறிவுடையதுமாக. See Zwieback meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zwieback?
Zwieback is a noun.
What is the plural of zwieback?
The plural of zwieback is zwiebacks.

Words near zwieback in the dictionary

  1. Zwickers
  2. Zwickmühle
  3. Zwickmühles
  4. Zwicks
  5. Zwide
  6. zwieback
  7. zwiebacks
  8. zwiebelane
  9. zwiebelanes
  10. zwieselite
  11. Zwijndrecht

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zwieback (page history and authors); zwieback (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zwieback (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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