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doughnut

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  • Regno Unito//ˈdəʊnʌt//
  • Canada//ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt//

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

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    A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

    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.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A circular life raft.

    He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A toroidal vacuum chamber.

    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 […]

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A kind of tyre for an airplane.

    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.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun

    Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.

    When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut

    My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.

    Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.

    Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.

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    figuratoAny object in the shape of a torus. A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.

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    A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.

    Nice going, you doughnut!

    You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!

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    A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.

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    gergoA whole note.

Etimologia

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.

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    To encircle something.

    […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.

    My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.

    Press people doughnutted around him.

    At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.

Forme

plurale
doughnuts
passato
doughnutted, doughnuted
participio passato
doughnutted, doughnuted
participio presente
doughnutting, doughnuting
3ª persona singolare
doughnuts
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