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dough

[ doh ]

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.


dough

/ dəʊ /

noun

  1. a thick mixture of flour or meal and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, etc
  2. any similar pasty mass
  3. See money
    a slang word for money


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  • doughlike adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dough1

before 1000; Middle English do ( u ) gh, do ( u ) h, dou ( e ), Old English dāg, dāh; cognate with Dutch deeg, Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, German Teig

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dough1

Old English dāg; related to Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, Old High German teig dough, Sanskrit degdhi he daubs; see dairy , duff 1, lady

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Example Sentences

Its four intelligent preset functions allow for one-touch preparation of pizza dough and shredding cheese, among other things, and it’s a great choice for smaller kitchens thanks to its relatively compact footprint.

The law states that for bread to be considered a staple food, and thus not subject to VAT, its sugar content “shall not exceed 2 percent of the weight of flour included in the dough.”

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Cover 1 piece of dough with plastic so that it doesn’t dry out.

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Namely, Parachute’s bing is still round and flat but uses yeast, where nearly all other forms are unleavened pieces of dough.

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All of this results in, to put it more plainly, difficult dough—but also in chewy noodles that won’t break down in the broth.

Divide the dough in half and very gently pat each half into a round 1-inch-thick disk.

Sneaker and clothing brands routinely dole out buckets of dough to drape their swag over popular cultural characters.

They might have scored all that dough if word of the waterboarding had not leaked.

With a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop (or two spoons), scoop round balls of dough onto the prepared sheet pans.

With a rubber spatula, stir in the chocolate and cranberries until the dough is well mixed.

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

Sure maybe you could grab that dough by blasting your way with the heaters plenty.

The artists made dough and the dealers made dough and the customers thought they were getting high class stuff.

The rubber is much like tough, heavy dough—there is not much stretch to it and in a cold place it would become hard and brittle.

Hester emphasized her words by a last vigorous beat of the dough and held out the spoon to her sister.

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