Bagel

Pronunciation

IPA: /ËˆbeÉªÉ¡É™l/, ËˆbeÉªÉ¡É«Ì©
Rhymes: -eÉªÉ¡É™l

Alternative forms

beigel UK

Origin

From Yiddish ×‘×™×™×’×œ, ultimately from Old High German bouc, boug- ("ring, bracelet"), from Old High German boug ("ring"), from Proto-Germanic *baug- ("ring") plus Proto-Germanic *-il ("noun suffix"); cf. obsolete English bee ("metal ring, bracelet"), Middle English bege, beh, Old English bÄ“ag, bÄ“ah, Old Frisian bÄg, Old Saxon bÅg, Middle Low German bÅg, Old Norse baugr, all from Proto-Germanic *baugaz ("ring"); also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel.

Full definition of bagel

Noun

bagel

(plural bagels)

A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
(tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).

2011, January 30, Piers Newbery, Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final, 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.

(slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.