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dough

  [doh]
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–noun
1. flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
2. any similar soft, pasty mass.
3. Slang. money.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME do(u)gh, do(u)h, dou(e), OE dāg, dāh; c. D deeg, ON deig, Goth daigs, G Teig

Related forms:
doughlike, adjective
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dough   (dō)   
n.  
    1. 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.
    2. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
  2. Slang Money.

[Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Dough

Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; 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. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. 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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : dough
Spanish: masa,
German: der Teig,
Japanese: 練り粉
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dough 
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"].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Dough

(batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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dough

mixture of flour and liquid with other ingredients, such as leavening agents, shortening, sugar, salt, eggs, and various flavouring materials, used to make baked products. A similar mixture, in more liquefied form, is known as batter

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