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Webster 1913 Edition

Dough

Dough

,
Noun.
[OE.
dagh
,
dogh
,
dow
, AS.
dāh
; akin to D.
deeg
, G.
teig
, Icel.
deig
, Sw.
deg
, Dan.
deig
, Goth.
daigs
; also, to Goth.
deigan
to knead, L.
fingere
to form, shape, Skr.
dih
to smear; cf. Gr. [GREEK] wall, [GREEK] to touch, handle. [GREEK]. Cf.
Feign
,
Figure
,
Dairy
,
Duff
.]
1.
Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked;
as, to knead
dough
.
2.
Anything of the consistency of such paste.
To have one’s cake dough
.
See under
Cake
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dough

DOUGH

,
Noun.
Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.
My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.

Definition 2025

dough

dough

English

Dough

Alternative forms

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.
    Hey Martin, we are playing a hold'em card game for some dough, would you like to join?

Derived terms

Translations

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.

Derived terms

Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāh, dāg ‎(“dough”), from Proto-Germanic *daigaz ‎(“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ‎(“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach ‎(“dough”), West Frisian daai ‎(“dough”), Dutch deeg ‎(“dough”), Low German Deeg ‎(“dough”), German Teig ‎(“dough”), Danish dej ‎(“dough”), Swedish deg ‎(“dough”), Icelandic deig ‎(“dough”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /doʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh

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