bagel
Plural: bagels
Noun
- A dense, ring-shaped bread roll that is boiled then baked.
- (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
- A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
- Alternative form of bagle.
Verb
- To achieve a score of 6–0 (as the winner) in a tennis set.
- To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
Examples
- He scored a bagel on his last turn, getting zero points for unplayed letters.
Origin / Etymology
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 dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
Scrabble Score: 8
bagel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbagel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bagel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
bagel: valid Words With Friends Word