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donuttery (plural donutteries)

  1. Alternative form of doughnutery.
    • 1974 February 10, Herbert Gold, “Mid-Day, Mid-Week, Mid-City”, in California Living (The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle), page 11:
      There are still some neighborhood dinettes that look like German-American Bund meeting halls, and cheeseries, donutteries, satisfy-it-quick emporiums.
    • 2000 August 4, Jerry Berger, “Police group’s attorney asks Talent’s campaign to retract endorsement claim on Web site”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 122, number 217, page A2:
      The Berger binge on battered butter and sugar seemed to relax the inhibitions of the usual cruller crowd who observed, in humbling fashion, that a neighboring donuttery, Old Town Donuts, drew frequent visits of “a real celebrity” — radio voice Charlie Brennan.
    • 2006, Greg Bishop, Joe Oesterle, Mike Marinacci, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, editors, Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, New York, N.Y., London: Sterling, →ISBN, page 159:
      In much the same way a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower suggests the elegance of Paris or the Coliseum cues the viewer to the antiquity of Rome, the twenty-three-foot-diameter cement pastry that sits upon the roof of the donuttery [Randy’s Donuts] implies all that is kitschy about the City of Angels.
    • 2013, Tiffany Harelik, Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook: Portland Edition[1], volume 1, American Palate, →ISBN:
      This unique donuttery [VooDoo Donuts], where the “magic is in the hole,” is the brainchild of business partners Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon.
    • 2018 May 30, Ellen Margulies, “5ive to try: Go nuts for doughnuts”, in The Tennessean, volume 114, number 150, page 2E:
      Yes, I like to highlight local businesses in this column, but local franchises count, too, and since DD [Dunkin’ Donuts] and KK [Krispy Kreme] are arch-rival donutteries (it’s a real word; don’t look it up), it was only fair.
    • 2019, Daniel Joseph, transl., Koyomimonogatari: Calendar Tale, Part 02: Nisioisin[2], Vertical, →ISBN:
      But it does seem like that donuttery, that famous chain, is having a hundred-yen sale every time I turn around.
    • 2019 June/July, Todd Taylor, “One Punk's Guide to a Vegan Diet”, in Razorcake, number 110, page 33, column 1:
      I tried to remember to exercise—to exercise for exercise’s sake, not just hauling boxes, getting laundry done, or walking to the video store, the library, and the local donuttery—but I was still working twelve to fourteen hours a day, six days a week.