Beignet Definition

bĕn-yā, bĕnyā

beignets

noun

A square doughnut with no hole.

American Heritage

A fritter with a filling of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, cheese, etc.

Webster's New World

A fritter.

American Heritage

A square doughnut or friedcake coated with powdered sugar.

Webster's New World

(UK) Fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling)

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Beignet

Singular:

beignet

Plural:

beignets

Borrowing from French beignet, from Middle French bignet, from Old French bignet (“fried dough enveloping a food substance”), a diminutive of Old French bigne, bugne, buyne (“lump, swelling”), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“lump, bump, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Old High German bungo ("swelling, tuber"; > German Bunge), Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), Gothic [script?] (buggja, “tuber, swelling”). Related to bun, bunk, bunch, bunion. Also connected to Gaulish *bunia and Gaelic bonnach "cake, biscuit."

From Wiktionary
French fritter from Old French from diminutive of beigne bump, lump of Celtic origin Welsh bôn stump, base

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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