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jelly doughnut

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noun

  1. a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.


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While it's true that berliner is a word for jelly doughnut, it wasn't the preferred term in Berlin and the surrounding area at the time.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

And they have a good, dense, yeasted jelly doughnut.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022

When he appeared on “Late Show With David Letterman” in 2013, he pulled a jelly doughnut out of his coat pocket and took a bite.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2019

An otherwise good jelly doughnut can be undone by an inferior filling loaded with corn starch and too little fruit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2017

“Sure, go ahead, babe. Here. Have a nice jelly doughnut. I just bought them fresh this morning over by Magazine Street. Ignatius says to me this morning, ‘Momma, I sure feel like a jelly doughnut.’

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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