dough
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dough
a thick mixture of flour or meal
Not to be confused with:
doe – the female of a deer or related animal
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dough
(dō)n.
1.
a. 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.
b. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
2. Slang Money.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
dough
(dəʊ)n
1. (Cookery) a thick mixture of flour or meal and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, etc
2. (Cookery) any similar pasty mass
3. a slang word for money
[Old English dāg; related to Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, Old High German teig dough, Sanskrit degdhi he daubs; see dairy, duff1, lady]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
dough
(doʊ)n.
1. flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc. in a thick, pliable mass for baking into bread, pastry, etc.
2. any similar soft, pasty mass.
3. Slang. money.
[before 1000; Middle English do(u)gh, do(u)h, Old English dāg, dāh; c. Middle Low German dēch, Old High German teic, Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
dough
- As in money, it almost certainly came from bread (another slang term for it), because bread is the staff of life.See also related terms for staff.
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Noun | 1. | dough - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain pastry, pastry dough - a dough of flour and water and shortening bread dough - any of various doughs for bread concoction, intermixture, mixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" |
2. | dough - informal terms for money clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, boodle, shekels, simoleons, wampum, bread, cabbage, loot, scratch, sugar money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" |
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dough
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Translations
těstoprachy
dejgrunkergysser
taikina
tijesto
dohánygubatészta
deig
パン生地
반죽
farina
riesta spurgašlamantystešla
mīklapikis
cestopampúchprachy
testo
deg
bột nhào làm bánh
dough
[dəʊ] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
dough
dough
:doughball
n → Kloß m
doughboy
n (dated US Mil sl) → Landser m (inf)
dough hook
n (Cook) → Knethaken m
doughnutting
n (Brit Parl inf) Situation, in der sich wenige anwesende Abgeordnete im Unterhaus um den Redner gruppieren, um im Fernsehen den Eindruck eines vollen Hauses zu vermitteln
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
dough
(dəu)1. noun a mass of flour moistened and kneaded but not baked.
2. (slang) money.
ˈdoughnut (-nat) , ((American) -nət) noun a ring-shaped cake, with a hole in the middle, fried in fat.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
dough
→ عَجِيـن těsto dej Teig ζύμη masa taikina pâte tijesto impasto パン生地 반죽 deeg deig ciasto massa тесто deg ส่วนผสมของแป้ง น้ำและอื่นๆ เช่นน้ำมัน น้ำตาลเพื่อทำขนมปัง hamur bột nhào làm bánh 面团Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009