"pretzel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩] Audio: en-us-pretzel.ogg [US], en-au-pretzel.ogg [Australia] Forms: pretzels [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtsəl Etymology: From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mreǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|de|Pretzel}} German Pretzel, {{der|en|goh|brēzitella}} Old High German brēzitella, {{der|en|VL.|*brāchiātellus}} Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, {{der|en|la|brāchium}} Latin brāchium Head templates: {{en-noun}} pretzel (plural pretzels)
  1. (cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot. Categories (topical): Cooking, Breads, Foods Translations (toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot): բրեցել (brecʻel) (Armenian), preclík [masculine] (Czech), pretzel [masculine] (Dutch), krakeno (Esperanto), breco (Esperanto), rinkeli (Finnish), viipurinrinkeli (Finnish), bretzel [masculine] (French), Brezel [feminine, neuter] (German), Pretzel [feminine, neuter] (German), Breze [feminine] (German), בייגלה (béigele) [masculine] (Hebrew), perec (Hungarian), kringla [feminine] (Icelandic), krinkeli (Ingrian), brezel (Italian), プレッツェル (purettseru) (Japanese), 브레첼 (beurechel) (Korean), 프레첼 (peurechel) (Korean), brecellus [Medieval-Latin] (Latin), Bretzel [feminine] (Luxembourgish), перек (perek) [masculine] (Macedonian), Kjrinjel [feminine] (Plautdietsch), precel (Polish), pretzel [masculine] (Portuguese), covrigel [masculine] (Romanian), covrig [masculine] (Romanian), кре́ндель (kréndelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), кренделёк (krendeljók) [masculine] (Russian), пре́цель (précelʹ) (english: German style) (Russian), бре́цель (brécelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), пѐре̄ц [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pèrēc [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), prẹ̑sta [feminine] (Slovene), pretzel [masculine] (Spanish), pretseli (Swahili), kringla [common-gender] (Swedish), бре́цель (brécelʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), בייגעלע (beygele) [neuter] (Yiddish), פּרעצל (pretsl) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-pretzel-en-noun-i5tqAGbj Disambiguation of Breads: 41 17 43 Disambiguation of Foods: 37 17 46 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot': 93 7
  2. (by extension) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Breads, Foods Translations (anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled): solmu (Finnish), hässäkkä (Finnish), кре́ндель (kréndelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), бу́блик (búblik) [masculine] (Russian), бара́нка (baránka) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-pretzel-en-noun--CVIGQ3l Disambiguation of Breads: 41 17 43 Disambiguation of Foods: 37 17 46 Disambiguation of 'anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bretzel [dated], brezel [rare] Derived forms: get one's panties in a pretzel, pretzel-bender, pretzelize, pretzel knot, pretzellike, pretzel link, pretzel pillow, pretzel style

Verb

IPA: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩] Audio: en-us-pretzel.ogg [US], en-au-pretzel.ogg [Australia] Forms: pretzels [present, singular, third-person], pretzelling [participle, present], pretzeling [US, participle, present], pretzelled [participle, past], pretzelled [past], pretzeled [US, participle, past], pretzeled [US, past]
Rhymes: -ɛtsəl Etymology: From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mreǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|de|Pretzel}} German Pretzel, {{der|en|goh|brēzitella}} Old High German brēzitella, {{der|en|VL.|*brāchiātellus}} Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, {{der|en|la|brāchium}} Latin brāchium Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=pretzeled|past2_qual=US|pres_ptc2=pretzeling|pres_ptc2_qual=US}} pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle pretzelling or (US) pretzeling, simple past and past participle pretzelled or (US) pretzeled)
  1. (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To bend, twist, or contort. Tags: Canada, US, informal, transitive Categories (topical): Breads, Foods Synonyms: bend, twist, contort, pretzelize
    Sense id: en-pretzel-en-verb-QUHsr1-l Disambiguation of Breads: 41 17 43 Disambiguation of Foods: 37 17 46 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 26 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 21 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bretzel [dated], brezel [rare]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot",
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          "word": "kringla"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "brécelʹ",
          "sense": "toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot",
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          "word": "בייגעלע"
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          "roman": "baránka",
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Pretzel"
      },
      "expansion": "German Pretzel",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "brēzitella"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German brēzitella",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "*brāchiātellus"
      },
      "expansion": "Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "brāchium"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin brāchium",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pretzels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzeling",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzeled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pretzeled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "pretzeled",
        "past2_qual": "US",
        "pres_ptc2": "pretzeling",
        "pres_ptc2_qual": "US"
      },
      "expansion": "pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle pretzelling or (US) pretzeling, simple past and past participle pretzelled or (US) pretzeled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bend, twist, or contort."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "bend",
          "bend"
        ],
        [
          "twist",
          "twist"
        ],
        [
          "contort",
          "contort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Canada, US, informal) To bend, twist, or contort."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bend"
        },
        {
          "word": "twist"
        },
        {
          "word": "contort"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɛt.səl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛtsəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-pretzel.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/En-us-pretzel.ogg/En-us-pretzel.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/En-us-pretzel.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-pretzel.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/34/En-au-pretzel.ogg/En-au-pretzel.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/En-au-pretzel.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pretzelize"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "bretzel"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "brezel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pretzel"
}

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