An archaic or dialectal spelling of 'doughnut,' a fried pastry dessert shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle.
Variant spelling of 'doughnut,' which comes from Dutch 'oliebollen' (oil balls) combined with English 'dough' and 'nut.' Earlier spellings included 'dough-nut' and this variant 'donought' reflects regional pronunciation differences.
The spelling of 'doughnut' has been all over the map historically—'donought' shows that people were trying to spell it phonetically based on how they pronounced it in their region, before standardized spelling took over.
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