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  • noun Archaic spelling of doughnut.

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Examples

  • But these so-called fiscal-conservatives sure were silent during the 8 years Bush turned us into a debtor-nation to a marxist-socialist government – China, dragged us into a war based on lies, ran up huge deficits by giving tax-breaks to the uber-rich without corresponding cuts in spending, put a dough-nut hole in Medicare Drug benefits, and allowed Wall Street to play fast and loose with peoples 'money.

    Poll: Tea Party allies deny racism element, critics say otherwise 2010

  • At the end of the day if the popular vote is not what decides the primaries your election system will be tainted once more, your happy democracy exposed once more as a dough-nut, tasty but hollow.

    Obama Still Has Popular Vote Lead ��� But Just Barely 2009

  • My mother has "dough-nut" vision, which is the opposite of tunnel-vision.

    Off To Moorfields Eye Hospital Today... shitty_advice 2007

  • Mrs. Beamish set her left hand upon her hip, leaned against the corner of the dresser, and meditatively selected another nut-cake, dough-nut or cruller, as you may call them, from the great brown pan piled up with these dainties, and Roxie, who was curled up in a little heap on the corner of the settle, knitting a blue woolen stocking, looked brightly up and said:

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • "Yes, there is one part of the dough-nut that wouldn't give you dyspepsia."

    The New Pun Book Thomas A. Brown

  • My mother was quite famous for her skill in manufacturing them, and my great delight was to superintend her operations, and be rewarded for good behavior with a limited quantity of dough, which I manufactured into certain uncouth images, called 'dough-nut babies.'

    A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

  • The charm of the dough-nut is unaltered, but the state of the stomach is not.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • In the middle of a game of Halma he asked if he might have another dough-nut.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Roger had sold his cottage in the country and was now in London, performing his exercises with regularity, concentrating daily upon the words "wardrobe," "dough-nut," and "wasp," and living entirely upon proteids.

    Once a Week 1919

  • With iron will he controlled them and concentrated fixedly on the word "dough-nut" for twelve minutes.

    Once a Week 1919

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