dough

American  

[doh] / doʊ /

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.

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dough British  

/ 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. a slang word for money

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Other Word Forms

• doughlike adjective

Etymology

Origin of dough

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

Example Sentences

Today, naan is made by combing flour, yogurt and yeast and kneading them into a soft dough.

From BBC

He started doing pottery when he was 5, sculpting bread dough in his mother’s kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now it is up to consumers to help her bring home the dough.

From Barron's

With few entertainment options available, consumers, flush with cash from stimulus checks, were quick to spend the dough on stuff they didn’t really need—sneakers, designer handbags, flat-screen TVs, you name it.

From Barron's

Machines mix the dough and divide it into into smaller, loaf-sized quantities.

From BBC

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