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.

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

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, countable) Clipping of doughboy, infantryman

• French: pâte
• German: Teig
• Italian: pasta, impasto
• Portuguese: massa, pasta
• Russian: те́сто
• Spanish: masa, pasta, amasijo, amasadura, textal (for tortillas)

• French: fric, oseille, galette, pognon, blé, thune, flouze, grisbi
• German: Knete
• Italian: malloppo
• Portuguese: grana
• Russian: ба́бки
• Spanish: pasta, guita, plata, mosca, lana, tela, cuartos, parné, perras

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.