cracknel

[ krak-nl ]

noun

1. a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
2. cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.

cracknel

/ ˈkræknəl /

noun

1. a type of hard plain biscuit
2. often plural crisply fried bits of fat pork

Word History and Origins

Origin of cracknel¹

1350–1400; Middle English crak ( e ) nele < Middle French *craquenelle, metathetic alteration of craquelin < Middle Dutch crākelinc, equivalent to crāke ( n ) to crack + -linc -ling ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of cracknel¹

C15: perhaps from Old French craquelin, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, from krāken to crack

Example Sentences

But it was no fun to lecture one's involuntary self unless it were done viva voce, and if she did that the woman on the other side of the carriage, who ever since Waterloo had been fecklessly trying to separate the green gooseberries in her string bag from the cracknel biscuits and French beans, might be alarmed.

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Pretzel, pret′sel, n. a brittle biscuit, cracknel.

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The messenger returned to the city with the message and the cracknel, and Bill waited all through the day and night, but no word came from the city.

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This is done to rid it of any bits of cracknel, etc., that may remain in the lard.

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After being pressed the cracknels are worked into a dough with corn meal and together made into cracknel bread.

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