{
 "id": "day-old",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "Day-old",
  "aliases": [
   "yesterday's",
   "seconds"
  ],
  "said": "Not a complaint. A price."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "D",
  "part_of_speech": "adjective"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Yesterday's donuts, sold cheap.",
  "story": "*Tradition holds —* a donut is a one-morning product, so the rack exists in nearly every independent shop and is priced to clear. Raised rings stale fastest."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "day-old-rack",
   "as": "Where they sit.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
  },
  {
   "to": "glazed-raised",
   "as": "Which ones go first.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:this-project"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "names.said": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "etymology": {
  "root": "plain description: a donut a day old",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "A trade usage rather than a dialect word; the rack is named after the age of what is on it.",
  "tier": "tradition",
  "source": "s:this-project"
 },
 "blurb": "Yesterday's donuts, sold cheap.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "day-old-rack",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "Day-old",
   "as": "Where they sit.",
   "rel": "kitchen"
  },
  {
   "to": "glazed-raised",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Glazed raised",
   "as": "Which ones go first.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:this-project",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Pink Box — this project's own reasoning",
   "publisher": "Pink Box",
   "url": ""
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "bavarian-cream",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Bavarian cream",
   "as": "What a filled donut is not sold as.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "day-old-rack",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "Day-old",
   "as": "The word.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "filling-injector",
   "type": "kitchen",
   "name": "The filler",
   "as": "What filled donuts are not sold as.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ]
}