Associations to the word «Bagel»

Pictures for the word «Bagel»

Wiktionary

BAGEL, noun. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
BAGEL, noun. (tennis) (slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
BAGEL, noun. (slang) (among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
BAGEL HEAD, noun. A temporary circular body modification to the forehead, created by saline injection.

Dictionary definition

BAGEL, noun. (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats