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Doughnut   /dˈoʊnˌət/   Listen
noun
Doughnut  n.  A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Doughnut" Quotes from Famous Books



... a squaw, her head mounted with an old hat of felt, cocked, jammed, and indented in no geometrical form, rush to a pan containing a collection of the amputated legs of hens, seize a handful of the raw delicacy, and devour them with as much alacrity as a Yankee woman would an omelet or a doughnut." ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... to meet them from a room beyond, where she left a doughnut and a half cup of coffee standing on a round-topped oak table. The regular noon hour enjoyed by most of the girls was done; two or three remained finishing their lunch or looking over the picture papers, and a couple of them, in the little ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... was a mixture of contempt and compassion. Nucky immediately turned sulky and the meal was finished in silence. When the last doughnut had been devoured, Frank stretched himself in the warm sand left among the rocks by the ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... a dollar to a doughnut that it's a Boy Scout!" laughed Jimmie. "Don't look the part, though, ...
— Boy Scouts in a Submarine • G. Harvey Ralphson

... sell a doughnut as big as three of them for a cent, an' throw in an extra one if ...
— Aunt Hannah and Seth • James Otis


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