donuttery

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noun

Chiefly Canada, US and Australia spelling of doughnutery.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noundonuttery (plural donutteries)

plural donutteries

  1. 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, →ISBN
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    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 11

    The 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 A2

    In 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 159

    This 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, →ISBN

    Yes, 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

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