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Doughnut
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- 1 The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK. UK, informal
"Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known."
- 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."
- 2 a small ring-shaped friedcake wordnet
- 3 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A circular life raft. attributive, figuratively
"He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him."
- 4 a toroidal shape wordnet
- 5 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A toroidal vacuum chamber. figuratively
"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 […]"
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- 6 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid. Australia, Canada, US, figuratively
- 7 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use. figuratively
- 8 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A kind of tyre for an airplane. figuratively
"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."
- 9 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun figuratively
"Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail"
- 10 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity. figuratively, slang, vulgar
"When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut"
- 11 Any object in the shape of a torus.; A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus. figuratively, slang, vulgar
- 12 A foolish or stupid person; an idiot. colloquial
"Nice going, you doughnut!"
- 13 A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- 14 A whole note. slang
- 1 To encircle something.
"[…] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion."
Etymology
From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
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