dough
UK /dəʊ/ · US /doʊ/ noun, verb
Forms doughs doughing doughed dow doff duff
- noun A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. “Pizza dough is very stretchy.”
- noun (slang) Money. “His mortgage payments left him short on dough.”
- verb (transitive) To make into dough. “The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.”
Synonyms
boodle bread cabbage clams dinero gelt kale lettuce lolly lucre loot moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons sugar wampum
Etymology
From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”).
Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”).
The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
- noun Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.
Etymology [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. dah; 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. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dough”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details