dough

[ doh ]

/ doʊ /

noun

flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.

any similar soft, pasty mass.

Slang. money.

Origin of dough

before 1000; Middle English do(u)gh, do(u)h, dou(e), Old English dāg, dāh; cognate with Dutch deeg, Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, German Teig

OTHER WORDS FROM dough

dough·like, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH dough

doe dough

Words nearby dough

douceur, douche, douche bag, douchebag, doug, dough, dough bird, dough hook, doughbelly, doughboy, doughboys

Example sentences from the Web for dough

Divide the dough in half and very gently pat each half into a round 1-inch-thick disk.

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Sneaker and clothing brands routinely dole out buckets of dough to drape their swag over popular cultural characters.

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They might have scored all that dough if word of the waterboarding had not leaked.

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With a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop (or two spoons), scoop round balls of dough onto the prepared sheet pans.

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With a rubber spatula, stir in the chocolate and cranberries until the dough is well mixed.

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Roll out the dough, cut it in cakes and bake them on tins in a moderately hot oven.

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When she found that nothing else was left to her she took that flour and mixing it with water kneaded it into dough.

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Chickum asserted that he had seen the hired girl mix a little salt in the dough.

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The dough was allowed to stand for several hours, sometimes for the whole night, in moderate heat.

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They left that dough on their faces and chest till the dough got hard and peeled off by itself.

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British Dictionary definitions for dough

dough

/ (dəʊ) /

noun

a thick mixture of flour or meal and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, etc

any similar pasty mass

a slang word for money

Word Origin for dough

Old English dāg; related to Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, Old High German teig dough, Sanskrit degdhi he daubs; see dairy, duff 1, lady

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