dough

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Dough

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.

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dough (usually uncountable; plural doughs)

  1. 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.
  2. (slang) Money.
    His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

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Verb[edit]

dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)

  1. (transitive) To make into dough.
    The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.