Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of doughnut.
Wiktionary
- n. North America A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
- n. North America Anything in the shape of a torus
- n. North America, automobile a peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
- n. North America A spare tire, smaller than a full sized tire and is only intended for temporary use.
- n. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small ring-shaped friedcake
Etymologies
- Alteration of doughnut, from dough + nut. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If one donut is all you really want, you might want to stop into your local Krispy Kreme shop today (Jan 20th) because they are giving out one free donut to every customer in honor of Inauguration Day!”
“Krispy Kreme donuts are almost too sweet for me to eat more than one at a time, but when that one donut is still hot from the fryer and freshly glazed, it is simply delicious.”
“XXXAngel ChopsXXX The bit about the about the donut is wrong.”
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“Hoops around a tube within a donut, is there an easier way to describe this magnificent piece?”
“Off to buy a donut from a local bakery … talk amongst yourselves in the meantime.”
“The donut is the unifying principle underlying everything (hmmm, makes one wonder if there is a tie-in to the new Simpsons movie).”
“Bull shit bush on CNN babbling from a dunkin donut factory about his imigration crap.”
“The worst is freakin donut holes … you convince yourself it’s less fattening because they’re small.”
“The crispy red-bean donut is inhumanly good, but don’t expect to get any work done for the rest of the day after eating one”
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“The Affordable Care Act strengthens Medicare by ensuring people on Medicare have access to preventive care through cost-free preventive screenings and by closing the coverage gap known as the "donut hole.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘donut’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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dos and don'ts
do tell, do over, do in, do nothing, do up, do not erase, do not disturb, Do Not Go Gentle ..., do-it-yourself, do-good, do one's best, do not enter and 59 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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My Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (D)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
desert rose, dabble, daffodil, dagger, dairymaid, daisy, damask, damson, dappled, dart, dashed, dauphin and 111 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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unusual
zoonotic, escarpment, rampart, bulwark, booby-traps, booby, lipid, synapse, axon, ressentiment, solipsism, panacea and 71 more...
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Way Down in the Hole
I love The Wire. I love The Wire's characters' names.
prez, bunk, bunny, clay, deacon, bug, donut, little, cutty, bubbles, squeak, proposition and 18 more...
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Time to Make the Donuts
What makes a donut? Deep-fried, sweetish dough. Hole not required.
donut, doughnut, cruller, fritter, Boston cream, Bavarian cream, powdered donut, jelly doughnut, glazed doughnut, donut hole, olicook, bear claw and 39 more...
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Favorite sounding words
I like words that sound nice.
donut, wool, anemone, tulip, tumbleweed, giggle, sync, monkey, fly, bilingual, hello, sushi and 1 more...
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Proof that marketers are idiots
If you see any of these words in a dictionary, throw away the dictionary!
kwik, kleen, shoppe, all-new, up to x% and more, lite, nutra, ye olde, e-z, perma, insta, tel and 13 more...
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Things you could find in the baked go...
A list for people who at the very mention of Sara Lee quiver in their naughty places.
crumpet, donut, muffin, gingersnap, shortbread, sugar cookie, pie, sara lee, pie crust, filling, twinkie, struedel and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for donut.
EditorMark "Donuts" gets 43 million Google hits to 12.6 million for "doughnuts." But subtract 12.8 million donuts for the brand name "Dunkin' Donuts" and probably millions more for "Buckeye Donuts," "Stan's Donuts," etc.
"Doughnut" is still ahead on Google's Ngram viewer: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=doughnut%2Cdonut&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Sep 12, 2011
hernesheir In the Idaho of my childhood one could patronize a donut shop where those pastries were prepared with an addition of potato flour and were called "spudnuts". The shops were so named as well. Feb 17, 2011
ruzuzu Is bilby suggesting that doughnut holes are holesome? Feb 17, 2011
reesetee Again I say: not doughy enough. And what the heck is a "friedcake"? Dec 19, 2007
bilby What's wrong with doughnut holes? Much less fattening and quite inexpensive if you buy them wholesale. Dec 19, 2007
reesetee Nah, then you're getting into the absurdly named doughnut hole.
I'm just as nutty as you might imagine, bilby. Dec 19, 2007
bilby Or don. Don you like it? Dec 18, 2007
uselessness I hate nuts in my donuts. If the word had to be shortened, why cut out the good part? It should have been doughn. But it would probably annoy Misterpolly. ;-) Dec 18, 2007
bilby But the proportion of nut to dough in doughnuts is lesser than that of nut to do in donuts. Is this acceptable? Are you less nutty than we believe? Dec 18, 2007
reesetee I prefer doughnuts myself. They're much more doughy. Dec 17, 2007
bilby You prefer doughnuts? In some parts of the world there still exist doughnuts, but policemen are devouring them mercilessly. Dec 15, 2007
pomegranate Actually, this one now appears in almost all English dictionaries, because after being bashed with it for five or six decades, the linguists have given up. Dec 15, 2007