Green’s Dictionary of Slang

doughnut n.1

also donut

1. (US black) the vagina, thus a (promiscuous )woman; doughnut establishment, a brothel.

[US]Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 7/1: We want to know if ‘Doughnut Perry’ [...] and other such fops are to go round taking advantage of weak-minded women? We understand that Mrs Cochrane intends to open a doughnut establishment in New York, if her lord gets rid of her.
[US]Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 7/2: We have seen him under rather suspicious circumstances in [...] Cass srteey. Wonder if there are ‘doughnuts’ in that vicinity?
[US]Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Lize Bemis [...] is a rough Mary Ann, and rather partial to a Green moll. He man left her on account of her too free talk about doughnuts.
[US]Spark Plug Smith [song title] Mama’s Doughnut.
[US]Washboard Sam [song title] Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut?
[US]D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 270: ‘Which one of these assholes are you fucking, honey?’ ‘At the moment, none of them,’ Jeannie smiled. ‘Don’t let it go to waste, hon. Your donut’s not worth a shit when you’re dead’.

2. (US) a baker.

[UK]J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 116/2: Dough-nut (Amer. passing to England). A baker, especially the German variety. ‘Shut up, thou dough nut, or thy last moment may be thy next.’–Cutting.

3. a rubber tyre.

[US]T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 33: {Sign on garage over stack of used tires:} Try our second hand doughnuts.
[US]A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 33/2: Doughnut, an automobile tire.
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 61/2: Doughnut. An automobile tire.
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
[US](con. 1940s–60s) Décharné Straight from the Fridge Dad.

4. of a woman, a state of sexual excitement, supposedly the vaginal equivalent of the penile erection.

[US]D. Jenkins Baja Oklahoma 235: ‘Women don’t get hard-ons,’ Doris said. ‘We get doughnuts.’ Doris tittered.

5. (Aus.) the anus.

[Aus]B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 19: Nobody’s ever tried to slip their pollywaffle up my doughnut.

6. (US campus) a score or mark of zero.

[US]D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 1247: ‘I’d made a donut on this economics quiz, and the professor said I could take it again’.

7. (Aus./N.Z.) a single round tyre track created by driving on one wheel.

[Aus]R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Les [...] decided he might as well cruise down main street, do a scorching, tyre smoking donut at the other end.
[Aus]Ozwords Apr. 3: Do you know the phrase doing a broggy? It means producing a skid mark on a dirt road when riding a bicycle, broggy being the mark produced. When the driver of a car performs the same senseless manouvre, he or she is doing a doughnut.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 67: doughnut Round-patterned wheelies done in car or on motorbike.
[Aus]Age (Melbourne) 18 Apr. 🌐 All the hicksville drivers the police have caught doing doughnuts and blowing black smoke all over the nicer people’s clothes.
[Scot]T. Black ‘Long Drop’ in Killing Time in Las Vegas [ebook] The trail bike a group of kids were using to burn doughnuts on the asphalt.
[Aus]T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 21: Finally we climax, doing ‘doughnuts’ in front of the 7-Eleven.
[US]T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] Jay cut the wheel and stomped the pedal, circling the golf cart in screaming donuts.
[Ire]P Howard Braywatch 248: ‘We could do, like, doughnuts and handbrake turns’.
[US]I. Fitzgerald Dirtbag, Massachusetts 72: [D]oing donuts and using the e-brake to take corners far too fast.

8. see doughnut (hole)

SE in slang uses

In compounds

doughnut dolly (n.) (also donut dolly) [among other things she offered coffee and doughnuts to the troops]

(US milit.) a Red cross recreation girl.

[US]Phila. Eve. Bulletin 8 Jan. n.p.: Red Cross recreation girls are ‘doughnut dollies.’ The chief doughnut dolly at the 1st Infantry Division is ‘doughnut six’ and her assistants have numbers from five to one. One slim girl is ‘doughnut one-half.’ A red-haired girl is ‘jelly doughnut.’.
[US](con. 1967) Bunch & Cole Reckoning for Kings (1989) 45: Instead of them doughnut dollies rakin’ the money, we’ll suck it all up.
[US](con. Vietnam War) G.R. Clark Words of the Vietnam War 151/1: Donut Dollies [...] American Red Cross women who comforted and assisted wounded U.S. soldiers in the major hospitals and provided other services to the troops in Vietnam.
doughnut foundry (n.) (also doughnut factory)

(US) a very cheap restaurant or café.

Arizona Silver Belt (Globe, AZ) 19 July 4/1: [description of Alaska] [B]arber shops, blackmiths, bakery shops, restaurants, lemonade stands, dougnut foundries, boat builders, teamsters [etc].
Hoxie Sentinel (Kenneth, KS) 11 Apr. 1/4: This [Carrie] Nation scare had its effect, and the general opinion seems to be that the party who started it should be sentenced to six months confinement in a doughnut factory with a muzzle on.
[US]St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 30 Sept. 15/1: I run a doughnut foundry.
Buffalo Commercial (NY) 15 Mar. 4/5: {She] had been running Salvation Army doughnut foundry.
[US]C. Samolar ‘Argot of the Vagabond’ in AS II:9 392: The cheapest of eating-houses are known as doughnut-foundries.
[US]Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 5 June 3/3: You have been compelled to go back to your old job in the doughnut factory.
W. Gaines About New York 20 Feb. [synd. col.] Your up-to-date provincial [...] doesn’t patronize the Rialto’s doughnut foundry.
[US]Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 74: dough nut factory A restaurant.
Nevada State Jrnl (Reno, NE) 23 Oct. 7/1: Adelegation of Reno chess players dropped in at Ralph Day’s doughnut foundry [...] for a tilt with the Carson City chess club.
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS 159/1: doughnut factory doughnut foundry doughnut house doughnut joint 1. A very cheap eating place 2. A place where free food is dispensed (hobo.).
doughnut head (n.) [-head sfx (1)]

(US) a fool.

in C.G. Fuller UFO Cong. 273: Excluding those doughnut heads eager to book passage on the next flying saucer to Venus [HDAS].
Kansas Court of Appeals decision 🌐 ‘[Robinson] had so many kids in her room that were so disruptive that it was very difficult to teach in her room. I mean, she had a lot of kids with a lot of problems.’ Parker recalled hearing Robinson saying things to her students about the ‘doughnut head’ or ‘don’t make me have to talk black to you.’.
Merry Widow 23 May [blog] There’s this girl I know, let’s call her doughnut-head, who does not like me.
S. Griffin Malcolm Tent Takes a Holiday 279: ‘You’ll never get away this, you doughnut-head!’ .
doughnut (hole) (n.) (also donut (hole)) [the emptiness of the hole in a SAmE donut. Note US milit. use donut hole, a female volunteer worker with the US Red Cross, although the ref. is to sexuality, i.e. the hole n.1 (1b), rather than stupidity]

(US campus) someone with no social skills.

[US]D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 329: It was in the cards [. . .] that the Princeton donut-hole, nothing-burger, clueless dork [. . .] was going to get the managing editor’s job.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 2: donut – person who does nothing with life: ‘Don’t date him; he’s a donut’.
[UK]Guardian Online 18 Sept. 🌐 He attacked Radio I for playing hip-hop [...] which led to grime star Lethal Bizzle calling him a ‘donut’.
[UK]T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Doughnut - idiot.
doughnut maker (n.)

(Aus.) a male homosexual.

[Aus]Tracks (Aus.) May 3: What sort of silly idiot... would call R J Kegg a closet queer .... At least he took one of the doughnut makers [i.e., a sodomist] out with an elbow in the mouth [Moore 1993].
doughnut poker (n.)

(US) a male homosexual.

[US] in Maledicta VIII 236: He’s a doughnut poker [homosexual].
doughnut puncher (n.) (also donut puncher)

(Aus./US) a male homosexual.

[Aus]R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 202: My offsider at the Kelly Club’s a dough-nut puncher and hangs around [...] trying to stick it up drag queens.
[Aus]B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 122: doughnut puncher a homosexual male, a gay; one who engages in anal coition, heterosexual or homosexual; also a non-specific term of abuse.
[Aus]G. Seal Lingo 115: This hardly exhausts the terms used to describe homosexuals in Lingo, all of which are unrelievedly pejorative and include, but are not restricted to: [...] doughnut-puncher; freckle-puncher; chocolate-puncher [...] and fag.
[NZ]D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/1: donut puncher n. a homosexual.
[Aus] www.thepantsman.com 🌐 Your complaints about the whining wenches of the Antipodes have not gone unheard my dearest donut puncher.

In phrases

time to make the donuts

(US black) lit. or fig., it is time to go to work.

[US]P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 13: C’mon on man [...] It’s time to make the donuts, homie.