doughnut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
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.
Compound parts: dough
nut
Inflected forms:
form: doughnuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: donut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
US
form: dough-nut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: doughnuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doughnutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doughnuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doughnutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doughnutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doughnuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doughnuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: donut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Canada
US
form: dough-nut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
examples: He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
figuratively
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut
My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.
Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.
Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.
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!
gloss: Any object in the shape of a torus.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
vulgar
gloss: A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Nice going, you doughnut!
You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!
gloss: A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
pos: noun
gloss: A whole note.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To encircle something.
pos: verb
examples: […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.
My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.
Press people doughnutted around him.
At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.
The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala that doughnutted the fifty-yard line.
Ms Lumley’s co-campaigners were behind him, and had arranged it so there were pictures of injured Gurkhas behind each of his ears. What a terrible fate for any politician, to be doughnutted by hideous lacerations!
In the early days of the broadcasting, the whips would see to it that their front-bench speaker was ‘doughnutted’, surrounded by eagerly attentive supporters.
Then there is the clustering around questioners and speakers, with more nodding and general harrumphing, in full camera shot. The minority parties take this ‘doughnuting’ particularly seriously, often rushing members into the Chamber to fill a camera angle in order to give the appearance of massed strength, especially important when the clip is shown in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
The historical precedent may be Henry II and Thomas Becket: “Oh who will rid me of this troublesome priest?” Or, in the Schama edition, “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”⁵⁶ Despite my doubts that even 12⁵² century kings spoke like this, dub judge for cleric and it sits easily in a vision of Cameron doughnutted by his cabal.
My blood still boils when I watch, in television replays, my grimaces of anger immediately behind Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement in which I was ‘doughnutted’ by the cameras. […] By coincidence, I was sitting on the fourth bench below the gangway immediately behind Sir Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement. This meant that I was ‘doughnutted’ in the television pictures of virtually every word he uttered.
But when President Ford walked along a corridor from the conference room to get a cup of coffee, he was doughnutted by a scrummage of twenty worried bodyguards, flattening delegates from other nations against the wall and interrogating them if they failed to display a pass. […] Secret Service secret agents spoke up their sleeves to a control room – then doughnutted around him in close protective formation.
A couple of other supporters had doughnutted round him.
In another stunt, to protest against the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, Hannan and other Oxford Eurosceptics ‘doughnutted’ Norman Lamont, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a Europhile meeting in Bath – that is, they surrounded him, to give the impression to the television cameras that there were many more protesters than there actually were.
The reshuffle was awful. Chris Grayling for Ken Clarke [as Lord Chancellor]. Hunt to Health. Owen Paterson to Environment. Cable doughnutted, surrounded by Tories in his own department.
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: torus
lang: Finnish
word: rengas
lang: Polish
word: obwarzanek
lang: Russian
word: тор
roman: tor
lang: Russian
word: кольцо́
roman: kolʹcó
lang: Swahili
word: mandazi