Dough Definition
dō
noun
A mixture of flour, liquid, leavening, and other ingredients, worked into a soft, thick mass for baking into bread, pastry, etc.
Webster's New World
Any pasty mass like this.
Webster's New World
Money.
Webster's New World
(slang) Money.
His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
Wiktionary
verb
To make into dough.
The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Dough
Noun
Singular:
dough
Plural:
doughsOrigin of Dough
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From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāh, dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English dogh from Old English dāg dheigh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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