doughnut

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. (attributive, figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
3. (figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
4. (Australia, Canada, US, figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
5. (figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
6. (figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
7. (figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
8. (figuratively, slang, vulgar) Any object in the shape of a torus.
9. (figuratively, slang, vulgar) Any object in the shape of a torus.
10. (colloquial) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
11. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
12. (slang) A whole note.

Verb

To encircle something.

Synonyms

donut

sinker

annulus

cruller

halo

ring

💍

anchor ring

motor tyre

pastry

puff

annular chamber

bismarck

toroid

baked goods

French fritter

ring-shaped cake

beignet

cake

🍰

toroidal chamber

bun

fritters

Translations

beignet

rosquilla

🍩

Donut

🍩

Krapfen

ciambella

donut

buñuelo

bombolone

rosquinha

rosca

λουκουμάς

donut

🍩

sonho

😴💭

Berliner

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdəʊˌnʌt/

Etymology

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.