donuttery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Chiefly Canada, US and Australia spelling of doughnutery.
Example Sentences
- "There are still some neighborhood dinettes that look like German-American Bund meeting halls, and cheeseries, donutteries, satisfy-it-quick emporiums."
- "The Berger binge on battered butter and sugar seemed to relax the inhibitions of the usual cruller crowd who observed, in humbling fashion, that a neighboring donuttery, Old Town Donuts, drew frequent visits of “a real celebrity” — radio voice Charlie Brennan."
- "In much the same way a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower suggests the elegance of Paris or the Coliseum cues the viewer to the antiquity of Rome, the twenty-three-foot-diameter cement pastry that sits upon the roof of the donuttery [Randy’s Donuts] implies all that is kitschy about the City of Angels."
- "This unique donuttery [VooDoo Donuts], where the “magic is in the hole,” is the brainchild of business partners Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon."
- "Yes, I like to highlight local businesses in this column, but local franchises count, too, and since DD [Dunkin’ Donuts] and KK [Krispy Kreme] are arch-rival donutteries (it’s a real word; don’t look it up), it was only fair."
- "But it does seem like that donuttery, that famous chain, is having a hundred-yen sale every time I turn around."
Etymology
From donut + -ery.