doughnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊˌnʌt/
ipa: /ˈdəʊ.nət/
ipa: /ˈdoʊˌnʌt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.nət/
rhymes: -oʊnət
homophone: donut
Forms: form: doughnuts
form: donut
form: dough-nut
Etymology: From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing, page 2:
text: 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.
glosses: A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
examples: text: He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
ref: 1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge, page 2:
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A circular life raft.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 2012, Edward Creutz, Nuclear Instrumentation I, page 213:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A toroidal vacuum chamber.
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A kind of tyre for an airplane.
examples: text: Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail
ref: 2014, Of Beauty & Nothingness:
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
examples: text: When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut
ref: 1993, Ken Campbell, Pigspurt, Or, Six Pigs from Happiness:
text: My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.
ref: 1994, Plays International, volume 10, page 39:
text: Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.
ref: 1997, Josiane Racine, Viramma, Life of an Untouchable, page 33:
text: Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.
ref: 2008, Diana Skylar, Seduction, page 155:
text: 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!
ref: 2012, Ole Eddie Kane The Next Generation, Moments and Fantasies, page 38:
synonyms: word: ring
word: torus
word: toroid
word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
synonyms: ring
torus
toroid
donut hole
glosses: Any object in the shape of a torus.
A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
examples: text: Nice going, you doughnut!
text: You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!
ref: 2012, Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares "Michons":
glosses: A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
glosses: A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A whole note.
Derived terms: bet a dollar to a doughnut
chouxnut
doissant
doughnut bumper
doughnut city
doughnut dolly
doughnutery
doughnut hole
doughnutlike
doughnut peach
doughnut pessary
doughnutting
doughnutty
duffin
Dutch doughnut
jam doughnut
jelly doughnut
ring doughnut
sconut
snow doughnut
take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
wager a dollar to a doughnut
who took the jam out of your doughnut