What is the difference between donut and bagel?
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(North America) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
*1900 , (George Wilbur Peck), Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107:
*:…Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.
(North America) Anything in the shape of a torus
(North America, automobile) a peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
(North America) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
(tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=January 30
, author=Piers Newbery
, title=Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final
, work=BBC
(slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
As nouns the difference between donut and bagel
is that donut is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream while bagel is a toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.donut
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* doughnutNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
Rare until 1950s, increasingly popular since then,“donut, doughnut]”, Google Ngram viewerpossibly influenced by spread of (w, Dunkin' Donuts) (founded 1950).“[http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/google_ngram_viewer_a_language_time_machine.html The Language Time Machine: Google’s Ngram Viewer gave us a new way to explore history, but has it led to any real discoveries?”, by Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate, Sept. 9, 2013
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bagel
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* beigel (UK)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. }}