doughnut
意味
- ドーナツ;ドーナツ状のもの
例文
I want to buy a dozen doughnuts.
1ダースのドーナッツを買いたいです。
Many of Europe's metropolises are plagued by the doughnut phenomenon.
ヨーロッパの主要都市の多くはドーナツ化現象に悩まされている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From 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.