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doughnut

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Food, dish
dough·nut /ˈdəʊnʌt $ ˈdoʊ-/ noun [countable]  donut.jpg DFFa small round cake, often in the form of a ring 炸面圈,多福饼,甜甜圈
Examples from the Corpus
doughnutWhy, Jo wondered, did she have to have a nose like a cross between a doughnut and a ski-jump?A baker is asking his customers to choose between doughnuts made with blue, red, yellow and green icing.Graceland is there, already, centerpiece of 10 dozen doughnut shops and roadside flophouses.Their main source of income came from doughnuts.He bought her doughnuts and cans of Carlsberg Special, and they picnicked on the pavement and he sang to her.I took out another sugared doughnut and began devouring it.The new structures have rejoiced in wonderfully evocative names like the beehive, the bell, the doughnut and the bicycle wheel.A conveyor belt lifts the doughnuts out of the grease for a slow ride through a white curtain of falling glaze.
dough·nut nounChineseSyllable
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doughnut
doughnut /ˈdəʊnʌt $ ˈdoʊ-/ noun [countable]

a small round cake, often in the form of a ring


dough·nut (also donut especially in NAmE ) BrE /ˈdəʊnʌt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdoʊnʌt/ 🔊 nouna small cake made of fried dough, usually in the shape of a ring, or round and filled with jam/jelly, fruit, cream, etc. 炸面圈,多纳圈(常含果酱、水果、奶油等)