dough
Etymology
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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 Noundough (uncountable)
- 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.
- (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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To make into dough.
- The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
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