doughnut

See also: dough-nut

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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.

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Noun

Filled doughnuts.

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

  1. 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.
  2. Anything in the shape of a torus.
  3. (Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
  4. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

Synonyms

  • (anything in the shape of a torus): ring, torus

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References

  1. ↑ “doughnut”, Wordorigins.org, Dave Wilton, Sunday, June 11, 2006.
  2. ↑ doughnut in the American Heritage
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