bagel
(ˈbeɪg(ə)l)
[ad. Yiddish beygel, app. (Webster) f. MHG. *böugel, whence G. dial. beugel, bäugl, dim. of MHG. boug-, bouc- ring, bracelet:—OHG. boug = OE. bēag bee2.]
A hard ring-shaped salty roll of bread. Also attrib. Cf. beigel.
| 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. x. 165 Bagels are like large wooden curtain-rings to look at... She cut them and buttered them. 1957 Lucille Stern Midas Touch iii. xxiii. 174, I got lox and bagels. You hungry, Baruch? 1959 Guardian 3 Dec. 9/1 The ‘Bronx Bagel-babies’—the middle class girls who leap feet first into the vie Bohême. Ibid., Pursued by Bagel-babies..most of the genuine artists have moved East. 1961 Encounter XVI. No. 4. 22, I eat salty bagels in the sun. 1961 Guardian 25 Mar. 4/1 His haunts, like the bagel shop. |