muesli

noun

: a breakfast cereal of Swiss origin consisting of rolled oats, nuts, and fruit

Examples of muesli in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Breakfast served is a sumptuous spread of fruits, muesli, cold meats, cheeses, pastries, and croissants, with cooked options from creamy eggs royale to smashed avocado on toast. Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 The company’s product line runs a whole-grain gamut, including stone-ground sorghum flour, paleo-style muesli and whole wheat-pearl couscous, along with energy bars and cake and soup mixes. Alex Williams, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024 Professor Spector switched his muesli–many kinds of which create blood sugar spikes and dips–for full fat yogurt with nuts and seeds, which keep him going until lunch, no snacks required. Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2024 Camilla loves fish and salads, while Charles eats a special mix of muesli for breakfast with a selection of six kinds of honey. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 May 2023 Yogurt Parfait LauriPatterson//Getty Images Start your morning off right with a simple parfait made of a container of plain Greek yogurt, 1/4 cup berries and 1/4 cup muesli, says Sonja Kukuljian, PhD, RD, the director of science and nutrition at Noumi. Women's Health, 1 May 2023 Bola's Barely Sweet granola is gluten free, with just-enough sweetness and richness to break out of muesli territory while also not tasting like dessert. Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 12 Mar. 2023 Each girl begins to show more of her emotional core in this episode, although much of it seems to be made up of bad men and the girls’ developing relationships with them, except in the case of Kimberly and Nico, of course, who will probably grow up to own land and a muesli cabinet in Idaho. Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021 That means embracing some things that will make a lot of Green believers choke on their organic muesli. Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011

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Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Swiss German Müesli, diminutive of Mues "soft food, mush, pulp," going back to Old High German muos, going back to West Germanic *mōsa- "food, soft food" (whence Old Saxon, Old English & Old Frisian mōs "food, prepared food"), probably from *mōt-, lengthened grade derivative of *mati- "food" + a suffixal -t- — more at meat

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of muesli was in 1939

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Cite this Entry

“Muesli.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muesli. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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