dough

noun

\ ˈdō

Definition of dough

1 : a mixture that consists essentially of flour or meal and a liquid (such as milk or water) and is stiff enough to knead or roll

2 : something resembling dough especially in consistency

3 : money doesn't have much dough

4 military : doughboy

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Synonyms for dough

Synonyms

bread
[slang],
bucks,
cabbage
[slang],
cash,
change,
chips,
coin,
currency,
gold,
green,
jack
[slang],
kale
[slang],
legal tender,
lolly
[British],
long green
[slang],
loot,
lucre,
money,
moola
(or moolah)
[slang],
needful,
pelf,
scratch
[slang],
shekels
(also sheqels or shekelim or shekalim or sheqalim),
tender,
wampum

Examples of dough in a Sentence

I don't have much dough. didn't have to spend a lot of dough for a new stereo

Recent Examples on the Web That night, Mom asked me to make pizza dough for our dinner. — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020 Mix all the flours, butter, cumin seeds and salt together with water to make a soft dough. — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2020 To be considered bread under the Value Added Tax Act, which dates to 1972, sugar can make up no more than 2% of the weight of the flour used to make dough for bread, according to the ruling. — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020 The poolish made with spelt gives you a dough that is super smooth, easy to work with and that stretches without tearing. — Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021 Attachments include two whisks and two dough hooks, and the motor head tilts up to easily add and remove the mixing bowl and attachments. — Sholeen Damarwala, Forbes, 23 June 2021 Here are the top picks to get quality grills for your summer—and save some dough for your burgers. — Sha Ravine Spencer, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021 Cooklee stainless-steel, five-quart stand mixer has 11 speeds and comes with dishwasher-safe bread dough hooks, flat beaters, a whisk and pouring shield. — oregonlive, 22 June 2021 Pre-heat oven to 475 degrees F. Portion dough into nine balls. — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2021

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History and Etymology for dough

Middle English doh, dogh, dowe, going back to Old English dāg, going back to Germanic *daiga- (whence Middle Dutch deech "dough," Old High German teig, Old Norse deig, deigr, Gothic daigs), ablaut derivative from the base of *digan-, *dīgan- "to knead, shape" (whence Gothic digan, gadigan "to knead, form from clay"), going back to Indo-European *d^hei̯ǵ^h- "knead, shape" — more at feign