dough

• dow, doff, duff (dialectal)

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāh, dāg (“dough”), from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh

dough (usually uncountable, plural doughs)

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

   Pizza dough is very stretchy.

2. (slang) Money.
   • 1906, O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”, in The Four Million‎^IA, page 1906:

     "I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"

   His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

   Hey Martin, we are playing a hold'em card game for some dough, would you like to join?

dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)

1. (transitive) To make into dough.

   The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

• dougher