doughnut
Syllables: dough·nutUK/ˈdəʊnʌt//ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/
doughnut noun: 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.
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Noun
doughnut (plural doughnuts)
- 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.
- The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.1865, Frank B. Goodrich, The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller, page 45
- One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing, page 2
- A circular life raft.
- He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.1996, John Long, Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge, page 2
- A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]2012, Edward Creutz, Nuclear Instrumentation I, page 213
- A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
- Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail2014, Of Beauty & Nothingness
- A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
- When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut1993, Ken Campbell, Pigspurt, Or, Six Pigs from Happiness
- My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.1994, Plays International, volume 10, page 39
- Synonyms:
- ring, torus, toroid, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha
- A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
- Synonyms:
- ring, torus, toroid, donut hole
- A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- Nice going, you doughnut!
- You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!2012, Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares "Michons"
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- A whole note.
Verb
doughnut (third-person singular simple present doughnuts, present participle doughnutting or doughnuting, simple past and past participle doughnutted or doughnuted)
- To encircle something.
- […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.1995, F[rederick] F[ernand] Ridley, Michael Rush, editors, British Government and Politics Since 1945: Changes in Perspective, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163
- My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.2003, April Smith, Good Morning, Killer, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 341
Proper noun capitalized: Doughnut
the Doughnut
- The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.
- Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.2015 November 19, Steve Rose, “The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped”, in The Guardian
doughnut meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
doughnut in Hindi
- deep-fried piece of dough or batter
- डोनट ḍonaṭ
doughnut in Tamil
- ஓர் இனிப்புத் தின்பண்டம், வட்டமாகயிருக்கும் பொருள், மைதாமாவையும் சர்க்கரையையும் கலந்து, வடையைப்போல, வட்டமாகச் செய்து, பலவிதமான நிறம் மற்றும் மணமூட்டப்பட்டு
doughnut in Marathi
- deep-fried piece of dough or batter
- डोनट ḍonaṭ
doughnut in Urdu
- deep-fried piece of dough or batter
- ڈونَٹ ḍonaṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- doughnut in Bengali
- ডোনাট ḍōnaṭ
- doughnut in Tagalog
- donat, bicho-bicho, shakoy
- doughnut in Arabic
- دُونَات dūnāt, شِفَنْج šifanj, مَبْرُومَة mabrūma
- doughnut in Malay
- donat
- doughnut in Indonesian
- donat
- doughnut in Thai
- โดนัท doo-nát
- doughnut in Vietnamese
- bánh rán
- doughnut in Myanmar
- ဒိုးနပ် dui:nap
Examples of doughnut in a sentence
- Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.1997, Josiane Racine, Viramma, Life of an Untouchable, page 33:
- Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.2008, Diana Skylar, Seduction, page 155:
- The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wet doughnut!2012, Ole Eddie Kane The Next Generation, Moments and Fantasies, page 38:
- The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala that doughnutted the fifty-yard line.2009, Jamie Iredell, Prose. Poems. A Novel., Orange Alert Press, →ISBN, page 27:
Synonyms of doughnut
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Forms of doughnut
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doughnuts |
| alternative Canada US | donut |
| alternative form (rare) | do'nut |
| alternative form (archaic) | dough-nut |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doughnuts |
| present participle | doughnutting |
| present participle | doughnuting |
| past participle | doughnutted |
| past | doughnutted |
| past participle | doughnuted |
| past | doughnuted |
Origin of doughnut
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.
Words formed from doughnut
- bet a dollar to a doughnut
- chouxnut
- cronut
- 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
Phrases with doughnut
Words that rhyme with doughnut
Questions about doughnut
- What does doughnut mean?
- Doughnut means 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.
- What is doughnut in Hindi?
- Doughnut in Hindi is डोनट (ḍonaṭ). See Doughnut meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use doughnut in a sentence?
- Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.
- What part of speech is doughnut?
- Doughnut can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce doughnut?
- Doughnut is pronounced /ˈdəʊnʌt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doughnut?
- The plural of doughnut is doughnuts.
Words near doughnut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doughnut (page history and authors); Doughnut (page history and authors); doughnut (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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