Word.ws English Dictionary

doughnut hole

doughnut hole is the alternative spelling of donut hole.

Meaning of donut hole

Noun

donut hole (plural donut holes)

  1. The empty space in the center of a donut.
  2. (Canada, US) A small, ball-shaped pastry, made in the same manner as a donut, roughly the size of the hole in a donut.
    • These donut holes are delicious!
    Synonyms:
    munchkin, timbit
  3. (US, slang, welfare) An income bracket in which an individual is ineligible for benefits, despite such benefits being available to those in both the immediately lower and higher income brackets.
    • Very few younger Americans have probably ever heard of the “donut hole” in Medicare's prescription drug program, but if you're on Medicare and need expensive drugs it's likely you have.2012, Nick Tate, ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare, page 138
  4. (informal) A body of water in which no entity holds fishing rights, entirely enclosed by adjacent regions where such rights are legally allocated to various parties.
  5. (slang) The anus.

Forms of doughnut hole

pluraldoughnut holes

Questions about doughnut hole

What is doughnut hole the alternative spelling of?
Doughnut hole is the alternative spelling of donut hole.

Words near doughnut hole in the dictionary

  1. doughnut bumpers
  2. doughnut cities
  3. doughnut city
  4. doughnut dollies
  5. doughnut dolly
  6. doughnut hole
  7. doughnut holes
  8. doughnut peach
  9. doughnut peaches
  10. doughnuted
  11. doughnuteria

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doughnut hole (page history and authors); donut hole (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doughnut hole.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doughnut_hole. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.