Doughnut vs Cupcake - What's the difference?
doughnut | cupcake |
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut ) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream.
Anything in the shape of a torus.
(North America) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
(slang) An attractive young woman.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 604:
(slang) A weak or effeminate man.
(dated) (Used as a term of endearment)
* 2010 , Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
As nouns the difference between doughnut and cupcake
is that doughnut is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly of a toroidal (a ring doughnut ) often mixed with various sweeteners and flavourings; or flattened sphere (a filled doughnut) shape filled with jam, custard or cream while cupcake is a small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.doughnut
English
(wikipedia doughnut)Alternative forms
* donut (North America)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (anything in the shape of a torus) ring, torusSee also
* bagel * koulouri * torus * toroidReferences
cupcake
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
- “Listen, cupcake ,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”