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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
dough·nut 
[doh-nuht, -nuht] Pronunciation Key
[doh-nuht, -nuht] Pronunciation Key –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. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| dough·nut also do·nut
(dō'nŭt', -nət) Pronunciation Key
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
doughnut
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 |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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