A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
Slang Money.
[Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]
O.E. dag "dough," from P.Gmc. *daigaz "something kneaded," from PIE *dheigh- "mould, form, knead" (cf. Skt. dehah "body," lit. "that which is formed," dih- "to besmear;" Gk. teikhos "wall"). Meaning "money" is from 1851. Doughface was the contemptuous nickname in U.S. politics for Northern Democrats who worked in the interest of the South before the Civil War; it was taken to mean "man who allows himself to be moulded." But the source, in an 1820 speech by John Randolph of Roanoke, perhaps meant doe as an animal afraid of its own reflection ["They were scared at their own dough faces"].
Dai"ry\ (d[=a]"r[y^]), n.; pl. Dairies (-r[i^]z). [OE. deierie, from deie, daie, maid; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deigja maid, dairymaid, Sw. deja, orig., a baking maid, fr. Icel. deig. [root]66. See Dough.]1. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. --Dryden. 2. That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese. Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter. --Temple. 3. A dairy farm. [R.] Note: Dairy is much used adjectively or in combination; as, dairy farm, dairy countries, dairy house or dairyhouse, dairyroom, dairywork, etc.
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