doughnut

2 definitions found

doughnut - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Doughnut \Dough"nut\, n.
     A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling
     lard.
     [1913 Webster]

doughnut - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  doughnut
      n 1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo
           of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut,
           anchor ring]
      2: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut,
         sinker]