dough

Definition of dough

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(uncountable, usually)A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

“Pizza dough is very stretchy.”

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noun

(uncountable, usually)A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

“Pizza dough is very stretchy.”
(slang, uncountable, usually)Money.

“His mortgage payments left him short on dough.”
“"I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"”
“I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.”
““It is already an incredibly saturated market,” Ms. Jones said of explicit content online. “The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.””
(US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, usually)Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).

verb

(transitive)To make into dough.

“The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.”

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Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian…

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From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Anagrams of dough

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Words you can make from dough

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3-letter words

11 words

2-letter words

6 words

Hooks

3 extensions · 3 back

A single letter you can add to dough to make another valid word.