Definitions
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- noun 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.
- noun North America Anything in the shape of a
torus - noun North America, automobile a peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
- noun North America A
spare tire , smaller than a full sized tire and is only intended for temporary use. - noun A toroidal cushion typically used by
hemorrhoid patients.
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- noun a small ring-shaped friedcake
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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XXXAngel ChopsXXX The bit about the about the donut is wrong.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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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!
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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.
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XXXAngel ChopsXXX The bit about the about the donut is wrong.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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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!
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Hoops around a tube within a donut, is there an easier way to describe this magnificent piece?
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Hoops around a tube within a donut, is there an easier way to describe this magnificent piece?
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Off to buy a donut from a local bakery … talk amongst yourselves in the meantime.
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The donut is the unifying principle underlying everything (hmmm, makes one wonder if there is a tie-in to the new Simpsons movie).
A Day in Court? 2007
pomegranate commented on the word donut
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.
December 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word donut
You prefer doughnuts? In some parts of the world there still exist doughnuts, but policemen are devouring them mercilessly.
December 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word donut
I prefer doughnuts myself. They're much more doughy.
December 17, 2007
bilby commented on the word donut
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?
December 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word donut
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. ;-)
December 19, 2007
bilby commented on the word donut
Or don. Don you like it?
December 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word donut
Nah, then you're getting into the absurdly named doughnut hole.
I'm just as nutty as you might imagine, bilby.
December 19, 2007
bilby commented on the word donut
What's wrong with doughnut holes? Much less fattening and quite inexpensive if you buy them wholesale.
December 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word donut
Again I say: not doughy enough. And what the heck is a "friedcake"?
December 19, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word donut
Is bilby suggesting that doughnut holes are holesome?
February 17, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word donut
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.
February 17, 2011
EditorMark commented on the word donut
"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
September 12, 2011