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English

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Doughnuts in a coffee shop, some ring-shaped and some filled.

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Etymology

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Fromdough +‎nut, 1809[1] because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, fromnut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie",[2] with thetoroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested inKnickerbocker’s History of New York, byWashington Irving, 1809.

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Noun

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doughnut (pluraldoughnuts)

  1. Adeep-fried piece ofdough orbatter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in atoroidal orellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled withjelly/jam,custard, orcream.
    • 1865, Frank B. Goodrich,The Tribute Book, Derby & Miller,page45:
      The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promiseddoughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then thedoughnuts.
    • 2003, Len Fisher,How to Dunk aDoughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing,page 2:
      One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied howdoughnuts differ from cookies.
    • 2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick,Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia,page 227,
      The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like adoughnut.
  2. (figuratively) Any object in the shape of atorus.
    Synonyms:ring,torus,toroid
    1. (attributive) Acircularlife raft.
      • 1996, John Long,Close Shaves: Classic Stories on the Edge, page 2:
        He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. Adoughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
    2. (physics) Atoroidal vacuum chamber.
      • 2012, Edward Creutz,Nuclear Instrumentation I, page213:
        In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuumdoughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in[…]
    3. (Australia, Canada,US) A peel-out orskid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
    4. A spare cartyre, usually stored in theboot, that is smaller than a full-sizedtyre and is only intended for temporary use.
    5. A kind of tyre for anairplane.
      • 1975,Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
        The advantage of thedoughnuts 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.
    6. Ashaper for making hair into aponytail orbun
      • 2014,Of Beauty & Nothingness‎[1]:
        Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail
    7. (slang, vulgar) Avulva; by extension, a woman'svirginity.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:vulva
      • 1993, Ken Campbell,Pigspurt, Or, Six Pigs from Happiness:
        When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on herdoughnut
      • 1994,Plays International, volume10, page39:
        My mother was sixteen when she lost herdoughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.
      • 1997, Josiane Racine,Viramma, Life of an Untouchable, page33:
        Girl, now you've reached puberty Yourdoughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.
      • 2008, Diana Skylar,Seduction, page155:
        Make my jelly roll with yourdoughnut hole.
      • 2012, Ole Eddie Kane The Next Generation,Moments and Fantasies, page38:
        The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wetdoughnut! You open your legs wide showing the view that makes me drool!
    8. (slang, vulgar) A puffyanus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
      Synonym:donut hole
  3. (colloquial) Afoolish orstupid person; anidiot.
    Nice going, youdoughnut!
    • 2012, Gordon Ramsay,Kitchen Nightmares "Michons"‎[2]:
      You fuckingdoughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!
  4. Atoroidal cushion typically used byhemorrhoid patients.
  5. (music, slang) Awhole note.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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deep-fried piece of dough or batter
anything in the shape of a torus
peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of a doughnut
tire

Verb

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doughnut (third-person singular simple presentdoughnuts,present participledoughnuttingordoughnuting,simple past and past participledoughnuttedordoughnuted)

  1. Toencircle something.
    • 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, page163:
      […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.
    • 2003,April Smith,Good Morning, Killer, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf,→ISBN, page341:
      My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose keptdoughnuting the car in wilder circles.
    • 2003,New Statesman, page48:
      Press peopledoughnutted around him.
    • 2004,Steve Moxon, “Storyline: Bev Gets Knotted”, inThe Great Immigration Scandal, Imprint Academic,→ISBN, page195:
      At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons,doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.
    • 2009,Jamie Iredell,Prose. Poems. A Novel., Orange Alert Press,→ISBN, page27:
      The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala thatdoughnutted the fifty-yard line.
    • 2009 May 8,Simon Hoggart,Send Up the Clowns: Parliamentary Sketches 2007–2011,Guardian Books, published2011,→ISBN:
      Ms Lumley’s co-campaigners were behind him, and had arranged it so there were pictures of injured Gurkhas behind each of his ears. What a terrible fate for any politician, to bedoughnutted by hideous lacerations!
    • 2012,Ferdinand Mount,The New Few, or A Very British Oligarchy,Simon & Schuster,→ISBN:
      In the early days of the broadcasting, the whips would see to it that their front-bench speaker was ‘doughnutted’, surrounded by eagerly attentive supporters.
    • 2012, Tony Wright,Doing Politics, London:Biteback Publishing,→ISBN:
      Then there is the clustering around questioners and speakers, with more nodding and general harrumphing, in full camera shot. The minority parties take this ‘doughnuting’ particularly seriously, often rushing members into the Chamber to fill a camera angle in order to give the appearance of massed strength, especially important when the clip is shown in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
    • 2012,Twelve Big Lies and the Prairies of Heaven, or The Curse of the Ceteris Paribus,Bloomsbury Reader,→ISBN:
      The historical precedent may be Henry II and Thomas Becket: “Oh who will rid me of this troublesome priest?” Or, in the Schama edition, “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”56 Despite my doubts that even 1252 century kings spoke like this, dubjudge forcleric and it sits easily in a vision of Camerondoughnutted by his cabal.
    • 2013,Jonathan Aitken,Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality,Continuum,→ISBN, pages 7 (Prologue) and 619 (End Game):
      My blood still boils when I watch, in television replays, my grimaces of anger immediately behind Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement in which I was ‘doughnutted’ by the cameras.[…] By coincidence, I was sitting on the fourth bench below the gangway immediately behind Sir Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement. This meant that I was ‘doughnutted’ in the television pictures of virtually every word he uttered.
    • 2015, John Warwicker,An Outsider Inside No 10: Protecting the Prime Ministers, 1974–79,The History Press,→ISBN:
      But when President Ford walked along a corridor from the conference room to get a cup of coffee, he wasdoughnutted by a scrummage of twenty worried bodyguards, flattening delegates from other nations against the wall and interrogating them if they failed to display a pass.[…] Secret Service secret agents spoke up their sleeves to a control room – thendoughnutted around him in close protective formation.
    • 2015,Quentin Letts,The Speaker’s Wife,Constable,→ISBN:
      A couple of other supporters haddoughnutted round him.
    • 2017,Harry Mount,Summer Madness: How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country,Biteback Publishing,→ISBN:
      In another stunt, to protest against the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, Hannan and other Oxford Eurosceptics ‘doughnutted’ Norman Lamont, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a Europhile meeting in Bath – that is, they surrounded him, to give the impression to the television cameras that there were many more protesters than there actually were.
    • 2021,Alastair Campbell,Alastair Campbell Diaries, Volume 8: Rise and Fall of the Olympic Spirit, 2010–2015,Biteback Publishing,→ISBN:
      The reshuffle was awful. Chris Grayling for Ken Clarke [as Lord Chancellor]. Hunt to Health. Owen Paterson to Environment. Cabledoughnutted, surrounded by Tories in his own department.

See also

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References

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  1. ^“doughnut”,Wordorigins.org, Dave Wilton, Sunday, June 11, 2006.
  2. ^doughnut in the American Heritage
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