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Munchkin vs Bagel - What's the difference?

munchkin | bagel |

As nouns the difference between munchkin and bagel

is that munchkin is a child while bagel is a toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.

munchkin

English

Noun

(wikipedia munchkin) (en noun)
  • (label) A child.
  • * 2006 , Michelle LaRowe, Nanny to the Rescue!: Straight Talk & Super Tips for Parenting in the Early Years , Thomas Nelson (2006), ISBN 9780849912320, page 124:
  • Picture this: your child begins his first day of group childcare, and he is suddenly surrounded by other munchkins his age
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  • (informal) A person of very short stature.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 25, author=Jonathan Salem Baskin, title=Will Nokia's Next Chapter Be Kitchen Blenders?, work=InformationWeek's Digital Life Weblog citation
  • , passage=It'll also have a keyboard configured for a munchkin (...)}}
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  • (domestic cat breed)
  • (label) A player who mainly concentrates on increasing their character's power and capabilities.
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  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2001, date=March 7, author="Caldera OpenLinux User", title=Re: what's a munchkin ?, newsgroup=alt.games.baldurs-gate citation
  • , passage=There are many different answers, but here's mine: A munchkin is someone who's chiefly concerned with "playing to win" - which might be quite appropriate in a game of checkers, but can be very annoying in a roleplaying game.}}

    Synonyms

    * (child) see also * (small person) dwarf, lilliputian, pygmy, tiddler

    References

    English allusions

    bagel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * beigel (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
  • (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=January 30 , author=Piers Newbery , title=Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. }}
  • (slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
  • See also

    * Beuge * beugen * Beugung * Biege * biegen * Biegung * donut, doughnut * torus, toroid

    References

    * * (wikipedia "bagel")

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