doughnut
See also: dough-nut and Doughnut
English
Alternative forms
- donut (North America)
- dough-nut (archaic)
Etymology
From dough + nut, 1809[1] because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie",[2] with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊˌnʌt/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊnət/, /ˈdoʊˌnʌt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -oʊnət
- Homophone: donut
- Hyphenation: dough‧nut
Noun
A box of doughnuts, some toroidal (ring-shaped) and some filled.
doughnut (plural doughnuts)
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) shape, often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
- 1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45,
- The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.
- 2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. Edition, Arcade Publishing page 2,
- One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.
- 2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227,
- The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.
- 1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45,
- Anything in the shape of a torus.
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- 1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge (page 2)
- He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
- 1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge (page 2)
- (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- 2012, Edward Creutz, Nuclear Instrumentation I (page 213)
- In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]
- 2012, Edward Creutz, Nuclear Instrumentation I (page 213)
- (Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- 1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
- The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.
- 1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- (slang) A vulva; (by extension) a woman's virginity.
- 1993, Ken Campbell, Pigspurt, Or, Six Pigs from Happiness:
- When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut
- 1994, Plays International - Volume 10, page 39:
- My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.
- 1997, Josiane Racine, Viramma, Life of an Untouchable, page 33:
- Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.
- 2008, Diana Skylar, Seduction, page 155:
- Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.
- 2012, Ole Eddie Kane The Next Generation, Moments and Fantasies, page 38:
- The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wet doughnut! You open your legs wide showing the view that makes me drool!
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- (Britain, colloquial) A foolish or stupid person.
- 2012, Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares "Michons":
- You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!
- 2012, Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares "Michons":
Synonyms
- (anything in the shape of a torus): ring, torus
Derived terms
- bet a dollar to a doughnut
- doughnut bumper
- doughnut city
- doughnut dolly
- doughnut hole
- doughnut peach
- doughnut pessary
- doughnutting
- Dutch doughnut
- jam doughnut
- jelly doughnut
- ring doughnut
- snow doughnut
- take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
- wager a dollar to a doughnut
Translations
deep-fried piece of dough or batter
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anything in the shape of a torus
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peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
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tire
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See also
- bagel
- koulouri
- torus
- toroid
References
- “doughnut”, Wordorigins.org, Dave Wilton, Sunday, June 11, 2006.
- doughnut in the American Heritage