pretzel
n.n. a long, twisted bread shaped like a knot. It is usually baked in a salty water solution and has a chewy texture.
n. a type of bread made from wheat flour, water, and salt, typically shaped into a knot or twisted form and boiled before baking. The boiling process gives it a distinctive chewy texture and a characteristic dark brown colour.
I bought a warm pretzel from the bakery.
The recipe for a traditional German pretzel requires the dough to be boiled in a salty solution before it is baked in a hot oven.
While the dough is similar to that of a bagel, the pretzel's unique shape and the alkaline solution used during boiling create a distinctively crisp exterior and a dense, chewy interior.
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.