friedcake vs doughboy

friedcake and doughboy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
friedcake	Yes	No	No	No
doughboy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, doughboy is a hyponym of friedcake; that is, doughboy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than friedcake:

friedcake: small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat
doughboy: a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread

Other hyponyms of friedcake include donut, doughnut, sinker, cruller, twister, beignet, French fritter, fritter.

friedcake (noun)	doughboy (noun)
small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat	a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread
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