"cinnamon roll" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-cinnamon roll.ogg [Australia] Forms: cinnamon rolls [plural]
Etymology: See cinnamon and roll. In reference to character, derives from headline in The Onion satirical newspaper, "Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good for This World, Too Pure" (23 January 2014) https://local.theonion.com/beautiful-cinnamon-roll-too-good-for-this-world-too-pu-1819576048/amp. Head templates: {{en-noun}} cinnamon roll (plural cinnamon rolls)
  1. (baking) A rolled pastry flavored with cinnamon and sugar. Categories (topical): Baking, Cakes and pastries Synonyms: cinnamon bun Translations (rolled pastry flavored with cinnamon): о́хлювче (óhljuvče) [neuter] (Bulgarian), espiral de canyella [masculine] (Catalan), 玉桂卷 (juk⁶ gwai³ gyun²) (Chinese Cantonese), 肉桂捲 (Chinese Mandarin), 肉桂卷 (ròuguì juǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), kanelsnegl [common-gender] (Danish), kaneelbroodje [neuter] (Dutch), kaneelbrood [neuter] (Dutch), kaneelirull (Estonian), kanelsnigil [masculine] (Faroese), korvapuusti (Finnish), roulé à la canelle (French), Zimtschnecke (english: spiral in form, usually very sweet) [feminine] (German), Zimtbrötchen (english: roll, often less sweet) [neuter] (German), シナモンロール (shinamon rōru) (Japanese), 시나몬 롤 (sinamon rol) (Korean), bááh łikaní náhineestsʼeeʼígíí (Navajo), kanelbolle [masculine] (Norwegian), skillingsbolle [masculine] (Norwegian), kanelsnurr [neuter] (Norwegian), rollo de canela [masculine] (Spanish), pan de canela [masculine] (Spanish), espiral de canela [feminine] (Spanish), kanelbulle [common-gender] (Swedish), kanelsnäcka [common-gender] (Swedish), örfil [Finland, common-gender] (Swedish), ซินนามอนโรล (sin-naa-mɔɔn rool) (Thai), булочка з корицею (buločka z koryceju) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-cinnamon_roll-en-noun-plLjlBwS Disambiguation of Cakes and pastries: 91 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Topics: baking, cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'rolled pastry flavored with cinnamon': 95 5
  2. (slang, neologism) A person perceived as good, gentle and kind. Often a fictional character who undergoes emotional suffering. Tags: neologism, slang
    Sense id: en-cinnamon_roll-en-noun-f3bTfi8g Categories (other): English neologisms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.