doughnut

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Dough + nut, first attested in in Washington Irving's Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 1809.[1] The original doughnuts were small, nut-sized balls of fried dough (the toroidal shape was to become common in the twentieth century).

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  • Hyphenation: dough‧nut

[edit] Noun

filled doughnuts

doughnut (plural doughnuts)

  1. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
  2. Anything in the shape of a torus.
  3. (North America) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of circle; a 360-degree skid.
  4. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

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  • (anything in the shape of a torus): ring, torus

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