Noun: kipfel
| Singular | kipfel |
| Plural | kipfels |
Sample Sentences
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Bake the kipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven. [1880, C. J. Peterson, Peterson's Magazine, volumes 77–78, page 314:]
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The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and a kipfel’. [2003, Brigitte Hamann, edited by Hans Mommsen, The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918–1945, Hitler and Vienna: The Truth about his Formative Years, page 35:]
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From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken, kipfel, or nut rolls. [2006, Edna Staebler, Food That Really Schmecks, page 167:]
Nouns inflected like kipfel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Kipfel, diminutive of Kipf (“wagon post”), from Old High German kipfa, chipf, from Latin cippus (“post”). See: German Nouns '
Kipfel', Latin Nouns '
cippus'.