Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
- n. Slang Money.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mass composed of flour or meal prepared for baking into bread or cake by various processes, as moistening, mixing with yeast, salt, etc., raising (after which it is called sponge), and kneading, or for simpler kinds by moistening and mixing only; paste of bread.
- n. Something having the appearance or consistency of dough, as potter’ clay, etc.
- n. A little cake.
- To make into dough.
- n. Money; ‘boodle.’
Wiktionary
- n. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- n. slang Money.
- v. transitive To make into dough.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked.
- n. Anything of the consistency of such paste.
WordNet 3.0
- n. informal terms for money
- n. a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
Etymologies
- From Old English dāh, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeigʰ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Dutch deeg, German Teig, Swedish deg. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The english muffin dough is a no-knead batter that is mixed up and allowed to rise for just a short period of time.”
“The dough is wrapped around butter (so that the butter is completely enclosed in dough and cannot slip out), the “package” is rolled out, folded over to double the number of layers, and then the whole thing is repeated.”
“Chelsea from Rolling in dough is the host of BreadBakingDay #5.”
“This dough is a good choice for fried pies because it holds up so well and has good buttery flavor.”
“YUM - homemade pizza dough is the best - I bet this was delicious!”
“Pizza dough is always made by hand; I'm just old school that way.”
“I think this dough is an adaptation of a Reinhart recipe, though I'm really not sure (all my IE favourites bit the dust recently * sob*).”
“I also used this dough to make pizza crust and I am afraid it did not work so well; the dough is a little too soft and sticky for that (maybe it needed a bit more flour).”
“This dough is a difficult one to know when to stop adding flour — for a kneading dough, it is quite sticky.”
“If you realize you added too much flour, add some more milk (1 tbsp at a time), until the dough is again supple and easy to handle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dough’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
scram, bearcat, heavens to betsy, dick, double-cross, ducky, gams, goofy, hooch, jalopy, john, joe and 174 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Money
The various names for "money" have been scattered about the world in various countries and are now coming together at last in this hopefully vast list.
grosze, money, cash, dough, euro, grosz, zloty, toman, pood, pelf, krone, pesewa and 22 more...
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Food words
molecular gastronomy, gastronomic, chef, sous-chef, pastry, patisserie, bakery, mandoline, champagne flute, chinois, dough, knead and 15 more...
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Ugh!
the ending, that is
clough, enough, cough, through, though, thorough, slough, chough, hough, tough, although, borough and 11 more...
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Lord of the Pies
Pastry words anyone?
crust, starry gazey pie, oven, pan, apple, blueberry, rhubarb, key lime, pumpkin, dough, flour, cherpumple and 17 more...
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Bread-related Words
Words related to bread and bread-making
barm, ferment, knead, couche, proof, gluten, rustic, brioche, semolina, durum, rye, yeast and 21 more...
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The chaos of "ough" words
Don't even start me on the chaos of English words containing the sequence "ough". Let's create a list to see how many unique pronunciations we get from this sequence of letters.
though, through, enough, thought, slough, rough, dough, bough, cough, ought, doughty, thorough
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money
words for currency
money, cheddar, beans, cheese, cash, gwap, cream, brass, cake, bread, scratch, sugar and 41 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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English
rewarding, wit, landmark, core, soar, drop, plunge, plummet, dive, level off, rocket, peak and 110 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dough.
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