English Explanatory Dictionary

doughnut

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Any object in the shape of a torus.
  3. A circular life raft.
  4. A toroidal vacuum chamber.
  5. A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
  6. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
  7. A kind of tyre for an airplane.
  8. A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
  9. A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
  10. A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
  11. A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
  12. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
verb
  1. To encircle something.
name
  1. The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.

Pronunciation

/ˈdəʊnʌt/ /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ En-us-donut.ogg

Word forms

doughnut doughnuts donut dough-nut doughnutting doughnuting doughnutted doughnuted the Doughnut

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

ring torus toroid axe wound badly packed kebab bearded clam beaver beef curtains burger chocha clam cooch coochie coochy cookie coot cooter crack cunny cunt fanny foo-foo front bottom fur burger fur pie gash gee girl penis hair pie ham sandwich honey hole it kebab kitty ladybits minge minnie moocha mooshoo mott muff muffin na-na nonny nooky noonie old hat pee flap pee-pee pink poontang prat pudendum muliebre punani pussy quaint quiff quim rat roast beef

Related words

bagel koulouri

Derived words

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

Translations

Finnish: torus Finnish: rengas Polish: obwarzanek Russian: тор Russian: кольцо́ Swahili: mandazi
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