doughnutted
- 1Simple past and past participle of doughnut.
Protesters doughnutted the embassy, linking arms in an unbroken ring around the building.
By midnight the stalled truck had been doughnutted by curious onlookers holding up their phones.
Note
The pastry's ring shape becomes an action here, so to stand around something is to doughnut it. One spelling serves as the plain past (crowds doughnutted the gate) and as the participle after have or be (the gate was doughnutted). The final t doubles before -ed. The verb needs a direct object, whatever ends up in the middle of the ring, which is why the passive comes so naturally.
doughnutted is a form of doughnut
doughnut, verb: To surround someone or something, especially by clustering round a speaker to make them appear well supported. Full entry
- Forms
- doughnutdoughnuts he/she/itdoughnutting -ing formdoughnutted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- doughnut → doughnutted: double the t, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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