Definitions
glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
Word origin
From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.
Used in a sentence
“Outside, the little birds on the telegraph wires looked in at the moving picture and smiled at one another. Some even wept. Then they flew down into the street and simply raved over a stale pretzel, ten days dead.”
“he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy”
“They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Salty twisted snack”7 letters
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