cruller

[ kruhl-er ]

/ ˈkrʌl ər /

a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.

Also called French cruller. a rich, light, raised doughnut, often with a ridged surface and sometimes topped with white icing.

Origin of cruller

1795–1805, Americanism; < Dutch krul curl + -er¹

She snatched the cruller off just in time to save it, and the room echoed her laughter.

We Can't Have Everything |Rupert Hughes
So I made no remarks upon the cruller, and finally Ma give a gulp and gasped out the bad news.

Believe You Me! |Nina Wilcox Putnam
Mark seized his third almost boiling cruller and turned to Billy.

Janet of the Dunes |Harriet T. Comstock
"Yes, yes," Billy replied through a mouthful of cruller, hot enough to make an ordinary man groan with pain.

Janet of the Dunes |Harriet T. Comstock

Under low lodges of canvas or bowers of pine branches the women were at work boiling meat or cooking a rude sort of cruller.

The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop |Hamlin Garland

cruller

/ (ˈkrʌlə) /

US and Canadian a light sweet ring-shaped cake, fried in deep fat

C19: from Dutch krulle, from krullen to curl