dough-nut

A form of doughnut — 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.

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Meanings

noundough-nut (plural dough-nuts)

plural dough-nuts

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of doughnut.

    The older children snatched sponge-cakes and dough-nuts from the forks and began to eat ravenously.

    1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 160–161
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APA

dough-nut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dough-nut

MLA

“dough-nut.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dough-nut. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dough-nut,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dough-nut.

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