muesli
pronunciation
How to pronounce muesli in British English:
UK [ˈmju:zli]
How to pronounce muesli in American English:
US [ˈmjuzli]
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- Noun:
- mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
Word Origin
- muesli
- muesli: [20] Etymologically, muesli means ‘little pap’. It is a Swiss-German diminutive form of German mus ‘pulp, purée’. Old English had the cognate mōs, which survived into the 16th century in the compound apple-mose ‘dish made from a purée of stewed apples’.
- muesli (n.)
- breakfast dish of oats, fruit, milk, 1926, from Swiss-German, from Old High German muos "meal, mush-like food," from Proto-Germanic *mod-sa-, from PIE root *mad- "moist, wet," with derivatives referring to various qualities of food (see mast (n.2)).