DOUGH - 12 definitions found
dough n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] dough - pocad dough O.E. dag "dough," from P.Gmc. *daigaz "something kneaded," from PIE *dheigh- "mould, form, knead" (cf. Skt. dehah "body," lit. "that which is formed," dih- "to besmear;" Gk. teikhos "wall"). Meaning "money" is from 1851. Doughface was the contemptuous nickname in U.S. politics for Northern Democrats who worked in the interest of the South before the Civil War; it was taken to mean "man who allows himself to be moulded." But the source, in an 1820 speech by John Randolph of Roanoke, perhaps meant doe as an animal afraid of its own reflection ["They were scared at their own dough faces"]. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) dough noun Etymology: Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; akin to Old High German teic dough, Latin fingere to shape, Greek teichos wall Date: before 12th century 1. a mixture that consists essentially of flour or meal and a liquid (as milk or water) and is stiff enough to knead or roll 2. something resembling dough especially in consistency 3. money 4. doughboy • doughlike adjective Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary dough (doughs) Note: In meaning 2, 'dough' is used in informal American English, and is considered old-fashioned in informal British English. 1. Dough is a fairly firm mixture of flour, water, and sometimes also fat and sugar. It can be cooked to make bread, pastry, and biscuits. Roll out the dough into one large circle... N-MASS 2. You can refer to money as dough. He worked hard for his dough. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary dough dəu n. 1 a thick mixture of flour etc. and liquid (usu. water), for baking into bread, pastry, etc. 2 sl. money. [OE dag f. Gmc] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. Cf. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.] 1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia DOUGH do. See BREAD. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary Dough (batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8). Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 108 Moby Thesaurus words for "dough": albumen, batter, blubber, blunt, bonnyclabber, boodle, brass, bread, breeze, bucks, butter, cabbage, cash, chips, clabber, clay, coin, cornstarch, cream, curd, currency, cushion, dinero, down, egg white, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelt, gilt, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, gruel, gumbo, gunk, jack, jam, jell, jelly, kale, kapok, legal tender, loblolly, mazuma, molasses, moolah, mopus, mucilage, mucus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pap, paste, pillow, plush, porridge, pudding, puff, pulp, puree, putty, rhino, rob, rocks, rubber, satin, scratch, semifluid, semiliquid, shekels, silk, simoleons, size, soup, spondulics, starch, sticky mess, sugar, swansdown, syrup, the needful, thistledown, tin, treacle, velvet, wampum, wax, wool, zephyr |
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