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bagel

nounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈbɛ.ɡəl//
  • Canada//ˈbeɪ̯.ɡəl//
  • Canada/[ˈbeɪ̯.ɡɫ̩]/
  • Canada//ˈbæɡ.əl//

A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.

noun

  1. 1

    A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.

  2. 2

    slangA score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).

    The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone.

  3. 3

    slangAn overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European *bʰowgʰ-o-sder. Proto-Germanic *baugaz Proto-West Germanic *baug Old High German boug Middle High German boucder. Yiddish בייגל (beygl)bor. English bagel Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”). Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare Austrian German Beugel and dialectal Beigel. See also beag.

verb

  1. 1

    To achieve a score of 6–0 (as the winner) in a tennis set.

  2. 2

    To hold an opponent to a score of zero.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of bagleAlternative form of bagle.

    “He’s so adorable, Aaron. Part beagle, part basset hound.” “A bagel. Very appropriate.”

    In October, Allan and Rebecca began to care for Marty’s dog Phil more often and adopted the “bagel” (basset and beagle mix breed) when the time came.

    The Bagel isn’t necessarily a popular dog, but they seem to appear often enough to be worth mentioning.

    The Bagel is a cross between the Beagle and the Basset Hound. Though not as popular as some of the more well-established mixes, the short-coated Bagel has the loving personality one would expect from two Hounds, plus the potential for some stubbornness.

Forms

plural
bagels
past tense
bageled, bagelled
past participle
bageled, bagelled
present participle
bageling, bagelling
third person singular
bagels
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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