pretzel
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.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.