doughnut in British English
or especially US donut (ˈdəʊnʌt)
noun1. a small cake of sweetened dough, often ring-shaped or spherical with a jam or cream filling, cooked in hot fat
2. anything shaped like a ring, such as the reaction vessel of a thermonuclear reactor
verbWord forms: -nuts, -nutting or -nutted3. (transitive) informal (of Members of Parliament) to surround (a speaker) during the televising of Parliament to give the impression that the chamber is crowded or the speaker is well supported