dough
Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-.

The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /dəʊ/
  • (America) IPA: /doʊ/ [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ]
  • (Northern England) IPA: /dʌf/
Noun

dough (uncountable)

  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, somewhat dated) Money.
    His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377 ↗:
      I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
  3. (US military slang, countableClipping of doughboy, infantryman
Translations Translations Verb

dough (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.



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