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BAYGL/ˈbeɪɡl/

A bagel is a chewy bread roll in a ring shape, often sliced and eaten with butter or cream cheese. Countable: a bagel, bagels. A bun is also small and round but has no hole; a doughnut is sweeter, often fried, and may have jam or icing. Mix-up: bagel vs bag (the thing you carry) — extra -el; and bagel vs eagle (a bird) — different start.

Meaning

A chewy bread ring, often eaten with cream cheese.

Examples

• “I had a bagel with cream cheese.”
• “Toast the bagel and add cream cheese.”
• “This bagel is too hard without a drink.”

Good to know

a bagel (ring, chewy bread). Contrast: bun (no hole), doughnut (sweet, fried). Mix-up: bag.

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