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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

dough

(dō)

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.

[Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

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dough

(dəʊ)

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]

dough

- As in money, it almost certainly came from bread (another slang term for it), because bread is the staff of life.

dough

noun

Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:

cash, currency, lucre, money.

Informal: wampum.

Slang: bread, cabbage, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, mazuma, moola, scratch.

Chiefly British: brass.

Translations

عَجِيـن

těstoprachy

dejgrunkergysser

Teig Knete Kröte Pinke Geld

ζυμάρι ζύμη

masa mosca pasta plata guita

taikina

pâte fric galette oseille pognon

בצק

tijesto

dohánygubatészta

deig

pasta quattrini impasto impasto per il pane impasto per pane

パン生地

반죽

farina

riesta spurgašlamantystešla

mīklapikis

cestopampúchprachy

testo

deg

hamur mangır para

bột nhào làm bánh

生面团钱面团

dough

[dəʊ] N

1. (Culin) → masa f, pasta f

2. (= money) → guita f, pasta f (Sp) , plata f (LAm) , lana f (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dough

[ˈdəʊ] n

(= mixture) → pâte f

(= money) → fric m , pognon m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dough

→ Teig m

(inf: = money) → Kohle f (inf)

dough

doughball

n → Kloß m

doughboy

n (dated US Mil sl) → Landser m (inf)

dough hook

n (Cook) → Knethaken m

doughnut

n (Brit) → Berliner (Pfannkuchen) m, → Krapfen m (S Ger, Aus)

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

dough

[dəʊ] n

a. → impasto, pasta

b. (fam) (money) → grana

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.

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

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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"