Definitions for pumpernickel

pumpernickel pum·per·nick·el

Spelling: [puhm-per-nik-uh l]
IPA: /ˈpʌm pərˌnɪk əl/

Pumpernickel is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 31 points.

You can make 747 anagrams from letters in pumpernickel (ceeiklmnppru).

Definitions for pumpernickel

noun

  1. a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.

Origin of pumpernickel

1750-60; German Pumpernickel orig., an opprobrious name for anyone considered disagreeable, equivalent to pumper(n) to break wind + Nickel hypocoristic from of Nikolaus Nicholas (cf.

Examples for pumpernickel

pumpernickel cut in slices, dried in an oven and rolled fine may also be used.

A person who lives in a tower of porcelain and dines on pumpernickel and lobscouse.

Spread this on thin slices of brown bread or pumpernickel, put two together, press lightly and cut into long, narrow shapes.

"I am glad to know you," said I, as pumpernickel introduced us.

From a German bake shop get the bread, either "Kummel," (which is rye with caraway seeds), or pumpernickel.

We could not even procure white bread, simply the black 'pumpernickel' bread so much prized in Germany.

Printing, brewing and distilling are also carried on, and the town is famous for its rye-bread (pumpernickel).

There was also a great dish of pumpernickel besides the usual food.

I am going to visit the old haunts of my youth at pumpernickel.

Mom fried pork sausages in the morning, you loved the smell of pumpernickel from the bakery in Vesey Street.

Word Value for pumpernickel
Scrable

24

Words with friends

31

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