doughnut

noun

1. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

   “The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.”

   “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.”

   “2018, Karen Scott, Margaret Webb, Clare Kostelnick, Long-Term Caring: Residential, Home and Community Aged Care, 4th Edition, Australia and New Zealand Edition, Elsevier Australia, page 227, The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.”

2. (attributive, figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.

   “He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.”

3. (figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.

   “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 […]”

4. (Australia, Canada, US, figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.
5. (figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.
6. (figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.

   “The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.”

7. (figuratively)Any object in the shape of a torus.

   “Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail”

8. (figuratively, slang, vulgar)Any object in the shape of a torus.

   “When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut”

   “My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.”

   “Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.”

   “Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.”

   “The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wet doughnut! You open your legs wide showing the view that makes me drool!”

9. (figuratively, slang, vulgar)Any object in the shape of a torus.
10. (colloquial)A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.

    “Nice going, you doughnut!”

    “You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!”

11. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
12. (slang)A whole note.

verb

1. To encircle something.

   “[…] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.”

   “My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.”

   “Press people doughnutted around him.”

   “At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.”

   “The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala that doughnutted the fifty-yard line.”

name

1. (UK, informal)The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.

   “Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.”