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doughnut

dough·nut

UK/ˈdəʊnʌt/ US/ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ fairly common informal slang uk us

noun

1.

a toroidal shape

  • “a ring of ships in the harbor”
  • “a halo of smoke”
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2.

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • bet a dollar to a doughnut
  • doughnut bumper
  • doughnut city
  • doughnut dolly
  • doughnut hole
  • doughnut peach
  • doughnut pessary
  • Dutch doughnut

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