dough

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
  3. noun Slang Money.

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flour ·  batter ·  paste ·  pastry ·  bread ·  yeast ·  potato ·  crust ·  pudding ·  porridge ·  chocolate ·  bacon
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  1. Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial, dow (formerly in literary use), and (with pron. as in tough) duff, also dial, doff (see duff); from Me. dow dowe dou, dogh, dog, earlier dagh, dag, from Anglo-Saxon dāh, dative dāge = D. and Low German deeg = Old High German Middle High German teic, German teig = Icelandic deig = Swedish deg = Danish deig = Gothic (Moesogothic) daigs, dough; from √ *dig, Goth, deigan, knead, mold, form, = Latin fingere (fig-), mold, form (whence ult. English feign, figure, fictile, etc., q. v.), = Greek *θιχ in τεῖχος, wall, = Sanskrit √ dih, stroke, smear.
  2. from dough, n.
 

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