jumbal
9.9
A small flat cookie with a hole in the middle, often sweet and spiced
- noun
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jumbal
- The old cookbook included a recipe for traditional jumbal biscuits.
Examples
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She baked a batch of jumbals for the historical reenactment.
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At the fair, vendors sold sweet jumbals alongside gingerbread and other treats.
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She baked a delicious jumbal for the party.
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I love the taste of a warm jumbal.
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At the fair, vendors sold sweet jumbals alongside gingerbread and other treats.
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She baked a batch of jumbals for the historical reenactment.
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I love the taste of a warm jumbal.
Synonyms
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8.2
A small crisp ring-shaped cake often flavored with spices
is softer and made from sweet dough rather than crisp
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jumbal is easy to remember if you think of the word jumble; one helpful story says cooks once mixed spices into the dough and shaped it into a small ring. So a jumbal became the name for a small, flat, sweet, ring-shaped cake or cookie.