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Squirrel vs Bagel - What's the difference?

squirrel | bagel |

As nouns the difference between squirrel and bagel

is that squirrel is any of the rodents of the family sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail while bagel is bagel (toroidal bread roll).

As a verb squirrel

is to store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use.

squirrel

Noun

(Sciuridae) (en noun)
  • Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.
  • (Scientology, often, disparaging) A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.
  • One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
  • Derived terms

    * gray squirrel * red squirrel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use
  • Usage notes

    * In addition to the single-L forms (m) and (m) given above, the less-common double-L forms (m) and (m) are also attested in UK usage.

    Derived terms

    * *

    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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