cinnamon roll
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- noun
- /ˈsɪnəmən roʊl/
:
rollo de canela
- I went to Starbucks, got coffee and a cinnamon roll, and came back home, which is where I have been since.
- bake cinnamon rolls
- homemade cinnamon rolls
- make cinnamon rolls
I have a cinnamon roll, I think.
- I have a cinnamon roll, I think.
- And then I just started on the like dough for the cinnamon rolls for tomorrow after church.
- So what we sell is like soda and treats, cookies, cinnamon rolls, pretzels, things to go with it, right.
- I will tell you, I do love an Amish cinnamon roll.
- I want to be a Baker baking cinnamon rolls in like a Christmas shop, you know, up in like North Pole, AK.
- All right, so now we're going to add our milk dredge to our cinnamon rolls and all we're doing is just heating up to a simmer about two cups of whole milk.
Examples
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She brought a box of homemade cinnamon rolls to the party, and everyone loved them.
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My daughter's best friend sold fresh cinnamon rolls every year at her garage sale and sold out every year.
Blog text (9) -
We'll go get us some cinnamon rolls in the morning.
Fiction book (1995) -
We always got cinnamon rolls on Sunday morning.
Fiction book (1995) -
So we woke up together and had cinnamon rolls, and then we played with my present.
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I was lucky enough to actually get to eat one of these sweet potato cinnamon rolls!
Blog text (8) -
Coffee is brewing and homemade cinnamon rolls are cooling on a rack.
Fiction book (1999) -
I thought about that old man in his kitchen and how his hands were shaking, and then I thought about the cinnamon rolls just coming out of the oven with the sugar melted and the dough all gooey.
Fiction book (1995) -
For breakfast, we enjoyed warm cinnamon rolls fresh out of the oven, topped with creamy icing.
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At the bakery, the aroma of freshly baked cinnamon rolls filled the air and made my mouth water.
Synonyms
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A baked item like a croissant or tart that people often eat with coffee
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A sweet rolled pastry baked with cinnamon and sugar, often with raisins
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A sweet baked roll covered in sticky sugar and often nuts
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A small sweet bread made with yeast, often with cinnamon, nuts, or glaze
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A sweet sticky pastry like a spiral roll flavored with honey and cinnamon
A sweet pastry of rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar
A sweet baked roll shaped like a pinwheel filled with jam and cinnamon sugar
A sweet yeast roll often made with spices, raisins or nuts and served with coffee
How Cinnamon-Flavored
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal constituents ('cinnamon' spice + 'roll' pastry) point to a sweet baked good, and the slang meaning maps that sweetness/softness metaphorically onto a person's character. This metaphorical, culture-specific extension is partly inferable (sweet → kind) but not fully predictable or conventionalized for an average B1 learner without exposure, so it is only semi-transparent.
Etymology
Cinnamon roll is a sweet pastry made by spreading cinnamon and sugar on dough, rolling it into a spiral, and baking it until soft and warm. That's why the phrase means 'a sweet baked pastry'.