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onion bagel

onion bagel

2 1.0
A round bread roll made with onion and often eaten for breakfast
  • noun
  • /ˈʌnjən ˈbeɪɡəl/
translation icon : bagel de cebolla
  • For breakfast, she ordered an onion bagel topped with scallions and lox.

Examples

  • At the bakery, I found a variety of bagels, but I chose the delicious onion bagel.

  • I had a few small bites of bacon on a toasted onion bagel with salmon cream cheese and thinly sliced tomato and onion.

    Blog text (33)

  • Did someone eat an onion bagel?

    The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

  • I don't have time to make you no onion bagel, so please do not start to beg, okay?

    What Women Want (2000)

  • "I'm hungry for a bologna and cheese sandwich on an onion bagel."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Onion bagel, cream cheese.

    The Boondock Saints (1999)

  • "She went back then to eating her pasta salad (which we had purchased at the campus cafe) and spreading cream cheese over an onion bagel.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Onion bagel, toasted.

    Blog text (33)

  • After his onion bagel, he'd go off on some alleged errand, or hunker down in front of the TV, or just go into the bathroom for a long time until Alice left.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • I love starting my day with a toasted onion bagel and cream cheese.

Synonyms

bagel
vsonion bagel
140 1.0

A round bread roll with a hole in the middle, chewy inside and crisp outside

is the same but additionally flavored with savory chopped pieces mixed or sprinkled
onion roll
vsonion bagel
1 2.7

A soft bread roll with pieces of onion inside or on top

is similar but has a dense ring shape and a chewier interior
onion bread
vsonion bagel
2.5

Bread made with small chopped onions mixed into the dough

is the same flavoring but is ring-shaped, boiled then baked, and chewier

How Onion-Flavored

onion bagel
2 1.0
bagel
140 1.0

Surface Forms

onion bagel singular
onion bagels plural

Morphology

onion + bagel

The meaning 'a bagel flavored with onion' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'onion' + 'bagel' (i.e. a bagel with onion). This modifier-head noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English noun compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The compound noun onion bagel names a bagel with pieces of onion mixed into the dough or sprinkled on top while it bakes. So the phrase simply means 'a bagel flavored with onion'.