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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

/ əʊ /

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. a slang word for money
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • dzܲl adjective
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51Թ 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dough1

Old English 岵; 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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Fridays after school and figure skating practice, I’d set out the lineup — chocolate chips, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, Crisco — pressing the dough into fat, craggy mounds on my mom’s old cookie sheets.

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Before the waitress can even tell them to enjoy their food, Nancy takes a hard look at the deep-fried dough in front of her and exclaims, “Nice!”

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The process of folding dough over butter to create multiple layers is nothing short of magic.

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He kneads pizza dough before cranking out several dozen tortillas.

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I didn't want to spend all that dough on that.

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