doughnuts
- 1Plural of doughnut.
The bakery sells fresh doughnuts every morning at six.
She glazed two dozen doughnuts for the office party.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular, not just the pastry. Doughnuts can also be circular life rafts, small spare tires meant only for temporary use, a kind of airplane tire, or the ring-shaped skid marks a car leaves when it spins through 360 degrees. That driving use belongs to Australia, Canada and the US, and it nearly always appears in the plural.
doughnuts is a form of doughnut
doughnut, noun: A portion of dough or batter, typically sweetened and flavoured, deep-fried and commonly formed into a ring or into a flattened ball with a filling of jam, custard or cream. Full entry
- Forms
- doughnutdoughnuts plural
- Spelling
- doughnut → doughnuts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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