doughnut
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors,…
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.
- 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.
Any object in the shape of a torus.
- He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
A foolish or stupid person
A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- Nice going, you doughnut!
- You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!
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A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
A whole note.
To encircle something.
- […] 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.
The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.
- Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.
The neighborhood
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for doughnut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA