donut
[doh-nuh t, -nuht]
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noun
doughnut
or do·nut
[doh-nuh t, -nuht]
noun
Origin of doughnut
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Contemporary Examples of donut
So I went home—we only lived about a quarter mile away—and I got on my bicycle and rode back, and he was in the donut shop.
For better or worse, jazz is turning into the music you hear when you drink coffee and munch on a donut or bagel.
You're not keeping people from buying that donut; you're just making sure they know its calorie "cost".
Can I take refuge in the thought that the mash-up of French and American pastry idioms gives this donut some postmodern cred?
But how much do you really have to move in order to burn off the calories in that donut, steak burrito—or even a single apple?
donut
noun
doughnut
esp US donut
noun
verb -nuts, -nutting or -nutted
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