donut

• doughnut

Alteration of doughnut, from dough +‎ nut. Attested 1900.[1]

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊnət/, /ˈdoʊˌnʌt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

donut (plural donuts)

1. (Canada, US) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
   • 1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107:

     …Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.

2. (Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. (Canada, US, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
4. (Canada, US) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
5. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
6. (Canada, US, slang) An idiot. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

This spelling was rare until 1950s, increasingly popular since then,[2] possibly influenced by spread of Dunkin' Donuts (founded 1950).[3]

Borrowed from English.

donut

1. a doughnut; a deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Borrowed from English.

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donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

Borrowed from English.

donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

   Synonym: rosquinha

donut m (plural donuts)

1. Alternative form of dónut (“donut, doughnut”)