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dough⋅nut

   [doh-nuht, -nuht]
–noun
1. a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
2. anything shaped like a thick ring; an annular object; toroid.
Also, donut.

Origin:
1795–1805; dough + nut
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Language Translation for : Doughnut
Spanish: dónut, German: der Krapfen, Japanese: ドーナツ
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dough·nut also do·nut     (dō'nŭt', -nət)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A small ring-shaped cake made of rich, light dough that is fried in deep fat. Also called regionally olicook.
  2. Something whose form is reminiscent of a ring-shaped cake.
  3. A fast, tight 360° turn made in a motor vehicle or motorized boat.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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doughnut 
1809, Amer.Eng., from dough + nut. First recorded by Washington Irving, who described them as "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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doughnut

noun
1. a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring] 
2. a small ring-shaped friedcake 

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Doughnut

Dough"nut\, n. A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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