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Doughnutgate

Doughnutgate is the alternative spelling of Donutgate.

Meaning of Donutgate

Proper noun

Donutgate

  1. (slang) A 2015 controversy in which American singer, songwriter, and actress Ariana Grande was seen on surveillance video in a shop licking donuts that were on display and saying “I hate Americans. I hate America. This is disgusting.”
    • A family friend says “Donutgate” won’t stop Grande’s rise to the pinnacle of music stardom.2015 July 16, Leslie Gray Streeter, “For Ariana Grande, it began in Boca”, in The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Fla., page D1

Origin of Doughnutgate

From doughnut + -gate.

Questions about Doughnutgate

What is Doughnutgate the alternative spelling of?
Doughnutgate is the alternative spelling of Donutgate.

Words near Doughnutgate in the dictionary

  1. doughnuted
  2. doughnuteria
  3. doughnuterias
  4. doughnuteries
  5. doughnutery
  6. Doughnutgate
  7. doughnuting
  8. doughnutless
  9. doughnutlike
  10. doughnuts
  11. doughnutted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Doughnutgate (page history and authors); Donutgate (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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