Meanings
plural donutteries
- Chiefly Canada, US and Australia spelling of doughnutery.
But it does seem like that donuttery, that famous chain, is having a hundred-yen sale every time I turn around.
2019, Daniel Joseph, transl., Koyomimonogatari: Calendar Tale, Part 02: Nisioisin, Vertical, →ISBN5 more examples
There are still some neighborhood dinettes that look like German-American Bund meeting halls, and cheeseries, donutteries, satisfy-it-quick emporiums.
1974 February 10, Herbert Gold, “Mid-Day, Mid-Week, Mid-City”, in California Living (The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle), page 11The Berger binge on battered butter and sugar seemed to relax the inhibitions of the usual cruller crowd who observed, in humbling fashion, that a neighboring donuttery, Old Town Donuts, drew frequent visits of “a real celebrity” — radio voice Charlie Brennan.
2000 August 4, Jerry Berger, “Police group’s attorney asks Talent’s campaign to retract endorsement claim on Web site”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 122, number 217, page A2In much the same way a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower suggests the elegance of Paris or the Coliseum cues the viewer to the antiquity of Rome, the twenty-three-foot-diameter cement pastry that sits upon the roof of the donuttery [Randy’s Donuts] implies all that is kitschy about the City of Angels.
2006, Greg Bishop; Joe Oesterle; Mike Marinacci; Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, editors, Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, New York, N.Y.; London: Sterling, →ISBN, page 159This unique donuttery [VooDoo Donuts], where the “magic is in the hole,” is the brainchild of business partners Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon.
2013, Tiffany Harelik, Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook: Portland Edition, volume 1, American Palate, →ISBNYes, I like to highlight local businesses in this column, but local franchises count, too, and since DD [Dunkin’ Donuts] and KK [Krispy Kreme] are arch-rival donutteries (it’s a real word; don’t look it up), it was only fair.
2018 May 30, Ellen Margulies, “5ive to try: Go nuts for doughnuts”, in The Tennessean, volume 114, number 150, page 2E
Origin
Cite this entry
donuttery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donuttery
“donuttery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donuttery. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “donuttery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/donuttery.
Source: donuttery on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.