dough

CEFRC1

/dəʊ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A soft mixture of flour and liquid used for baking.

  2. 02

    noun

    Money, especially a large amount.

Examples

  • Add water and mix to a firm dough.

  • Shape the dough into a ball.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /doʊ/
  • /dʊf/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).

  2. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To make into dough.

More examples

In context

  • His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

  • The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

  • Yeast makes dough rise.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.