doughnut
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Danh từ
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.
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.
(figuratively) Any object in the shape of a torus.
- 3.
(colloquial)A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
Nice going, you doughnut!
- 4.
A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- 5.
(slang)(music, slang) A whole note.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To encircle something.
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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.