donut
pronunciation
How to pronounce donut in British English:
UK [ˈdəuˌnʌt]
How to pronounce donut in American English:
US [ˈdoˌnʌt, -nət]
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- Noun:
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
Word Origin
- donut (n.)
- see doughnut. It turns up as an alternate spelling in U.S. as early as 1870 ("Josh Billings"), common from c. 1920 in names of bakeries. Halliwell ("Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words," 1847) has donnut "a pancake made of dough instead of batter," which Bartlett (1848) writes "is no doubt the same word" as the American one.
Example
- 1. Every donut will carry you one kilometre .
- 2. So you could almost look like you are standing in a donut of sodium emission .
- 3. Have you eaten the donut ?
- 4. I want to dig a hole and plant a donut tree !
- 5. The kite looks like an airplane / a rabbit / a dragon / a donut .