doughnut

Speech parts

1. doughnut - Noun

2. doughnut - Verb

3. Doughnut - Proper noun

Meaning

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ring halo sinker annulus anchor ring donut danish patty nimbus band muffin croissant eclair bread pack

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Antonyms

non-circular not round noncircular noncircular figure not spherical figure not-rounded figure

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Hypernyms

friedcake toroid

Hyponyms

fairy ring fairy circle raised doughnut

Phrases with the word

doughnut's shape yeast-raised doughnut doughnut shape doughnut-shaped figure doughnut-shaped bread geometric doughnut

Examples

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole. Oscar Wilde

There is no fountain for youth. What you put in your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette you will kill the damn dog. Jack LaLanne

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two. Cassandra Clare

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut. Daniel Handler

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Haruki Murakami

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them. Dean Norris

Close letter words and terms

doughlike doughmaking Doughman doughnut bumper doughnut city doughnut dolly