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doughnut

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dough·nut also do·nut  (dnt, -nt)
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.

doughnut esp US, donut [ˈdəʊnʌt]
n
1. (Cookery) a small cake of sweetened dough, often ring-shaped or spherical with a jam or cream filling, cooked in hot fat
2. (Physics / Nuclear Physics) anything shaped like a ring, such as the reaction vessel of a thermonuclear reactor
vb -nuts, -nutting, -nutted
(Law / Parliamentary Procedure) (tr) Informal (of Members of Parliament) to surround (a speaker) during the televising of Parliament to give the impression that the chamber is crowded or the speaker is well supported
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.doughnut - a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"
fairy circle, fairy ring - a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium
toroid - the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus
2.doughnutdoughnut - a small ring-shaped friedcake        
friedcake - small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat
raised doughnut - a doughnut made light with yeast rather than baking powder
Translations
doughnut [ˈdəʊnʌt] Ndonut ® m, dona f (LAm)

doughnut [ˈdəʊnʌt] donut (US) nbeignet m
a jam doughnut → un beignet à la confiture

doughnut donut (Am) [ˈdəʊnʌt] nkrapfen m inv, bombolone m
doughnut donut (Am) [ˈdəʊnʌt] nkrapfen m inv, bombolone m

doughnut كعكات محلاة مقلية kobliha doughnut Doughnut ντόνατ donut donitsi beignet krafna ciambella ドーナツ 도넛 donut smultring pączek donut, rosquinha пончик munk ขนมโดนัท donut bánh rán 炸面圈


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--Then he pressed five hundred roubles into my hand--to buy myself some bonbons, as he phrased it--and wound up by saying that in the country I should grow as fat as a doughnut or a cheese rolled in butter; that at the present moment he was extremely busy; and that, deeply engaged in business though he had been all day, he had snatched the present opportunity of paying me a visit.
Don't care if you are; you'd better mind yourself, and tell how you took away my strap, and kept the biggest doughnut, and didn't draw fair when we had the truck.
Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread.
 
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