doughnut UK /ˈdəʊnʌt/US /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/noun 13verb 1forms 5 noun13 •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.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. — 2003 •A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients. •(figurative) Any object in the shape of a torus. •[before a noun] (figurative) A circular life raft.He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him. — 1996 •(figurative) A toroidal vacuum chamber.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 […] — 2012 •(Australia, figurative) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid. •(figurative) A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use. •(figurative) A kind of tyre for an airplane. •(figurative) A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun •(informal) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.Nice going, you doughnut! •(vulgar, figurative) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut — 1993 •(vulgar, figurative) A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus. •(slang) A whole note. verb1 •To encircle something.[…] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion. — 1995 formsdoughnuted · doughnutted · doughnuting · doughnutting · doughnuts
