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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with milk and boiled in lard.

See also: doughnut

dough-nut ‎(plural dough-nuts)

Archaic spelling of doughnut.
- 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 10,
  The older children snatched sponge-cakes and dough-nuts from the forks and began to eat ravenously.