doughnut
/ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.17 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts."
- "One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies."
- "2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227, The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut."
- "He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him."
- "In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]"
- "The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *dʰóyǵʰos Proto-Germanic *daigaz Proto-West Germanic *daig Old English dāg Middle English dogh English dough substrateder. Proto-Germanic *hnuts Proto-West Germanic *hnut Old English hnutu Middle English note English nut English doughnut From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/
- British English: /ˈdəʊnʌt/
Usage
- Australian usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- British usage
- Informal
Inflected Forms
doughnuts (plural)
do'nut (alternative, rare)
donut (alternative, Canada)
dough-nut (alternative, archaic)
doughnuts (present, singular)
doughnutting (participle, present)
doughnuting (participle, present)
doughnutted (participle, past)
doughnutted (past)
doughnuted (participle, past)
doughnuted (past)
the Doughnut (canonical)