dough
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English dāh, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeigʰ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Dutch deeg, German Teig, Swedish deg.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA: /dəʊ/
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Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA: /doʊ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
- Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh
Noun[edit]
dough (usually uncountable; plural doughs)
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- Pizza dough is very stretchy.
- (slang) Money.
- His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
mix of flour and other ingredients
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money (slang)
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Verb[edit]
dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)
- (transitive) To make into dough.
- The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.