jelly doughnut
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛli ˈdoʊnʌt/
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dona de mermelada
- He buys a New York Times and a jelly doughnut.
- eat a jelly doughnut
- coffee and jelly doughnuts
- a dozen jelly doughnuts
Would this Jelly doughnut then be a health food?
- Would this Jelly doughnut then be a health food?
- And for a quick second, I said to myself, did I have a Jelly doughnut in my backpack?
- So when you eat a sweetened oat granola bar, you might as well eat a Jelly doughnut.
- The young blonde now hosts a special on what to do in Dubai, that obscene indoor ski slope, jeeps that bounce like Jelly doughnuts over dunes, lit to look friendly.
Examples
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I also picked up some lovely jelly doughnuts on the way in from the airport.
Fiction book (1993) -
At night we'd snuggle up in the back and tell creepy stories, and then have jelly doughnuts for breakfast.
Fiction book (1996) -
- Can I get you a jelly doughnut or something, man?
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- Give me a jelly doughnut.
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Someone stole my jelly doughnut.
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She washed down her jelly doughnut with a diet cola.
Fiction book (1994) -
Murphy had a jelly donut and a cup of coffee as Dolly spread a copy of the Boston Globe in front of Murphy.
Fiction book (1999) -
Man, I’d give my shirt about now for a half-dozen jelly doughnuts.
Fiction book (1999) -
It just goes to show that being uptight about eating all the right foods is worse for your health than munching a jelly doughnut and enjoying every minute of it.
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm going to treat myself to one of these delicious jelly doughnuts for dessert.
Synonyms
134
1.0
A small sweet fried cake usually shaped like a ring or filled
1
9.5
A raised doughnut filled with jam
A sweet fried dough ball filled with jam and covered in sugar
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'jelly' names the filling/topping and 'doughnut' names the pastry, so a learner who knows both words will infer a doughnut containing or flavored with jelly. This noun+noun modification pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary English compounding, making the meaning immediately accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Jelly doughnut comes from the simple picture of a doughnut filled with jelly. Bakers cook a round piece of dough and then push jam into the middle, so the name means 'a doughnut with jelly inside'.