WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
crack•nel
(krak′nl),USA pronunciation n.
- Fooda hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
- Food cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp. Cf. scrapple.
- Middle Dutch crākelinc, equivalent. to crāke(n) to crack + -linc -ling1
- Middle French *craquenelle, metathetic alteration of craquelin
- Middle English crak(e)nele 1350–1400