n. 1. A hard crisp biscuit. 2. cracknels Crisp bits of fried pork fat; cracklings. [Middle English crakenele, alteration of Old French craquelin, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, small cake, from krāken, to crack; see gerə-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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