donut

Alteration of doughnut, from dough +‎ nut. Attested 1900.^[1]

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• Hyphenation: do‧nut

donut (plural donuts)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) Alternative spelling of doughnut.
   • 1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, page 107:

     […] Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.

   • 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:44 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2022:

     The Long Lances, however, were thick in the water, and soon Portland was hit in the stern, sending her turning donuts across the ocean trying to work out which way to point her guns, popping off occasional shots at Hiei, which, by now, was heavily ablaze and a very obvious target in the night.

   • 2016 January 12, “'Boy racer' fined over donut tribute to pal”, in Belfast Telegraph‎^[2]:

     The court heard that at the junction of the Ballyveely Road, Leslie - who was driving a BMW - performed the 'donuts' as others looked on.

• This spelling was rare until the 1950s, but increasingly popular since then,^[2] possibly influenced by the spread of Dunkin' Donuts (founded 1950).^[3]

• see: doughnut

• Tondu

Borrowed from English.

donut

1. a doughnut; a deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Borrowed from English donut, from older doughnut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.nʏt/

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• Hyphenation: do‧nut

donut m (plural donuts, diminutive donutje n)

1. a doughnut, a donut

   De Amerikaanse veteraan was nog steeds verbolgen over de donuts van het Rode Kruis.

   The American veteran was still enraged about the donuts of the Red Cross.

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• noot

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.nøt/

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donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

   Synonym: beignet

Unadapted borrowing from English donut.

donut m (plural donuts)

1. alternative form of dónute

donut m (plural donuts)

1. alternative form of dónut (“donut, doughnut”)

donut c

1. doughnut (deep-fried toroidal piece of dough)

   Synonyms: munk, flottyrring

• donut in Svensk ordbok (SO)