A variant or alternative spelling of 'bagel,' the round bread roll with a hole in the center.
Variant spelling of bagel, from Yiddish 'beygl,' ultimately from Middle High German 'beugel' meaning 'ring' or 'bracelet,' referring to the ring shape.
This spelling variant shows how Yiddish food words entered English through many different routes—bagel has dozens of historical spelling variations because English writers were phonetically transcribing an unfamiliar word.
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