dough

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English

Dough

Etymology

From Old English dāh, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeigʰ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Dutch deeg, German Teig, Swedish deg.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dəʊ/

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• (US) IPA: /doʊ/

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  Rhymes: -əʊ

• Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• rolling in dough

Translations

mix of flour and other ingredients

Albanian: brumë (sq) f. Arabic: عجين (ar) (3ajiin) m., عجينة (ar) (3ajiina) f. Aramaic: Syriac: ܠܝܫܐ (layšā, layšo) m. Hebrew: לישא (layšā, layšo) m. Armenian: խմոր (hy) (xmor) Azeri: xəmir (az) Basque: ore Bulgarian: тесто (bg) n. Catalan: pasta (ca) f., massa (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 麵團 (cmn), 面团 (cmn) (miàntuán), 生麵糰 (cmn), 生面团 (cmn) (shēngmiàntuán) Chuvash: чуста (čusta) Crimean Tatar: qamır Czech: těsto (cs) n. Danish: dej (da) c. Dutch: deeg (nl) n. Esperanto: pasto (eo) Finnish: taikina (fi), tahdas (fi) French: pâte (fr) f. German: Teig (de) m. Greek: ζύμη (el) (zými) f. Hebrew: בצק (he) (batsék) m. Hungarian: tészta (hu) Icelandic: deig (is) n.

Ido: pasto (io) Italian: pasta (it) f., impasto (it) m. Japanese: 生地 (ja) (きじ, kiji), 練り粉 (ja) (ねりこ, neriko) Kazakh: қамыр (kk) (qamır) Korean: 떡 (ko) (tteok), 반죽 (ko) (banjuk) Kurdish: Kurmanji: hevîr (ku) m. Sorani: هه‌ویر (hewîr) Latin: farīna (la) f. Latvian: mīkla (lv) f. Polish: ciasto (pl) n. Portuguese: massa (pt) f. Romanian: aluat (ro) Russian: тесто (ru) (tésto) n. Scots: daich Scottish Gaelic: taois f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те̑сто (sh) n. (Ekavian), тије̑сто (sh) (Ijekavian) Roman: tȇsto (sh) n. (Ekavian), tijȇsto (sh) n. (Ijekavian) Slovak: cesto (sk) n. Spanish: masa (es) f., pasta (es) f. Swahili: mahamri (sw) Swedish: deg (sv) c. Turkish: hamur (tr) Welsh: toes (cy)

money (slang)

Bulgarian: мангизи (bg) pl. French: fric (fr) m., oseille (fr) f., galette (fr) f., pognon (fr) m., blé (fr) m., thune (fr) f., flouze (fr) m., grisbi (fr) m. German: Knete (de) f. Greek: παράδες (paráðes) m. pl., φράγκα (frá[ŋ]ga) n. pl. Hungarian: dohány (hu)

Polish: forsa (pl) Portuguese: grana (pt) f. Russian: бабки (ru) (bábki) f. pl. Spanish: pasta (es) f., guita (es) f., plata (es) f., mosca (es) f., lana (es) f. Swahili: mahamri (sw) Swedish: deg (sv) c.

Verb

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.