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Definition bagel

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????‎ (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”); compare obsolete English bee (“ring, metal ring, bracelet”), Middle English bege, beh, Old English b?ag, b?ah, Old Frisian b?g, Old Saxon b?g, Middle Low German b?g, Old Norse baugr; also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.

Noun

bagel (plural bagels)

1. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
2. (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
3. (slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.

Verb

bagel (third-person singular simple present bagels, present participle bagelling, simple past and past participle bagelled)

1. (tennis) Achieve a score of 6-0 in a tennis set.
2. (sports) To hold an opponent to a score of zero.

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