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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts [syn: cruller, twister]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Dutch krulle, a twisted cake, from krul curly, from Middle Dutch crul — more at curl Date: 1801 1. a small sweet cake in the form of a twisted strip fried in deep fat 2. Northern & Midland an unraised doughnut

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US a small cake made of a rich dough twisted or curled and fried in fat. Etymology: prob. f. Du. krullen curl

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cruller Crul"ler (kr[u^]l"l[~e]r), n. [Cf. Curl.] A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]