Donut vs Girl - What's the difference?
donut | girl |
(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.
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A young female human; (in contrast to boy ), a female child or young adult.
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, title= Any woman, regardless of her age. (see usage notes)
A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
(uncommon) A queen (the playing card.)* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)
(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
A girlfriend.
A daughter.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
(US, slang) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Cash Money Content (2011), ISBN 9781451617139,
* 1977 , Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle , Holloway House (1987), ISBN 0870673661,
* 2005 , K'wan, Hoodlum , St. Martin's Press (2005), ISBN 0312333080,
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As a noun donut
is doughnut.As a proper noun girl is
(astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the black turtle.donut
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Alternative forms
* 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
References
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(en noun)Mark Tran
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The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
page 43:
- She had taught me to snort girl , and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
page 175:
- Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl .
page 185:
- After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl , Honey was zoned out. She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.