doughnut

doughnut
doughnut (n.) 1809, American English, from DOUGH (Cf. dough) + NUT (Cf. nut). First recorded by Washington Irving, who described them as "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks." Meaning "a driving in tight circles" is U.S. slang, 1981.

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  • Doughnut — Dough nut, n. A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • doughnut — [n] sweet ring shaped fried cake bun, cruller, danish, dunker*, pastry, sinker*, sweet roll; concepts 457,461 …   New thesaurus

  • doughnut — (also US donut) ► NOUN ▪ a small fried cake or ring of sweetened dough …   English terms dictionary

  • doughnut — [dō′nut΄] n. a small, usually ring shaped cake of sweetened, leavened dough, fried in deep fat …   English World dictionary

  • Doughnut — For other uses, see Doughnut (disambiguation). A glazed doughnut …   Wikipedia

  • doughnut — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cruller, beignet, fried cake, dunker (sl.), tire (sl.). See food. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. donut, fried cake, cruller, raised doughnut, jelly doughnut, powdered doughnut, chocolate doughnut, etc;… …   English dictionary for students

  • Doughnut — Donut  Pour l’article homonyme, voir DONUT.  Donut au chocolat …   Wikipédia en Français

  • doughnut — 1. adjective (derogatory slang) A fat person. Syn: Swiss roll 2. noun a) A deep fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut)… …   Wiktionary

  • doughnut — UK [ˈdəʊˌnʌt] / US [ˈdoʊˌnʌt] noun [countable] Word forms doughnut : singular doughnut plural doughnuts a round sweet food, often in the shape of a ring, that is made by cooking dough in oil …   English dictionary

  • doughnut — also donut noun Date: circa 1809 1. a small usually ring shaped cake fried in fat 2. something (as a mathematical torus) that resembles a doughnut especially in shape • doughnutlike adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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