Zwieback

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers. countable, uncountable

    "Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off."

  2. 2
    slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp wordnet

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biscuitbrussels biscuitcrackerruskrusksinker

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"Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off."

Etymology

From German Zwieback, from zwie- (“twi-, two-”) + backen (“to bake”) (i.e. “twice-baked”), a calque of Italian biscotto (but not to be confused with it).

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