[MR] What, pray tell, are beignets?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Towey, Brian wrote:

> 	ETYMOLOGY: American Spanish, diminutive of Spanish sopaipa, fried
> dough sweetened with honey, from earlier xopaipa, from Mozarabic xupaipa,
> diminutive of úppa, súppa, bread soaked in oil, from Old Spanish sopa, food
> soaked in liquid, of Germanic origin. See seu-2 in Appendix I.

The Meriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary cites the usage of this term
starting around 1940, BTW, whereas beignet is from the early 1800s.

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