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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a toroidal shape
noun a small ring-shaped friedcake
originFrom dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- dought 11
- hognut 10
- nought 10
- dough 10
- hound 9
- ought 9
- thong 9
- tough 9
- dugout 8
- doth 8
- goth 8
- hond 8