Definitions
a small ring-shaped friedcake
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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 […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fried ring pastry”8 letters
02“Ring-shaped pastry”8 letters
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