dough

dough

English

Navy bakers knead, cut, whip, and roll dough

Alternative forms

• dow, doff, duff (dialectal)

Etymology

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”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Norwegian Bokmål deig (“dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).

The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊ/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /dʌf/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: doh, d'oh, doe, do (in music)

Noun

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, dated) Money.

   His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

   • 1906, O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”, in The Four Million, page 170:

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

   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 377:

     I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

   • 2021 January 13, Gillian Friedman, “Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     “It is already an incredibly saturated market,” Ms. Jones said of explicit content online. “The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.”

Derived terms

• cookie dough
• dough-baked
• doughboy
• dough-faced
• doughnut
• dough scraper
• doughy
• hard dough bread
• mother dough
• roll in dough
• rolling in dough
• salt dough
• starter dough

 

Translations

mix of flour and other ingredients

Albanian: brumë (sq) f Apache: Western Apache: ikʼan nastʼood Arabic: عَجِين‎ m (ʿajīn), عَجِينَة‎ f (ʿajīna) Egyptian Arabic: عجين‎ m (ʿagīn) Moroccan Arabic: عْجينة‎ f (ʿjina) Aramaic: Hebrew: לישא‎ m (layšā, layšo) Syriac: ܠܝܫܐ‎ m (layšā, layšo) Armenian: խմոր (hy) (xmor) Aromanian: aloat, aluat Azerbaijani: xəmir (az) Bashkir: ҡамыр (qamır) Basque: ore Belarusian: це́ста n (cjésta) Bulgarian: тесто́ (bg) n (testó) Burmese: မုန့်ညက် (my) (mun.nyak) Catalan: pasta (ca) f, massa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 麵團／面团 (zh) (miàntuán), 生麵糰／生面团 (zh), 生面团 (shēngmiàntuán) Chuvash: чуста (čusta) Classical Nahuatl: textli, tlaoltextli Cornish: past m Crimean Tatar: qamır Czech: těsto (cs) n Danish: dej (da) c Dutch: deeg (nl) n Esperanto: pasto (eo) Estonian: taigen Faroese: deiggj n Finnish: taikina (fi), tahdas (fi) French: pâte (fr) f Galician: masa (gl) f, amoado (gl) m Georgian: ცომი (comi) German: Teig (de) m Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 m (daigs) Greek: ζύμη (el) f (zými) Ancient: σταῖς n (staîs), φύραμα n (phúrama) Hebrew: בָּצֵק‎ (he) m (batsék) Hindi: आटा (hi) m (āṭā) Hungarian: tészta (hu) Icelandic: deig n Ido: pasto (io) Indonesian: adonan (id) Irish: taos (ga) m Italian: pasta (it) f, impasto (it) m Japanese: 生地 (ja) (きじ, kiji), 練り粉 (ja) (ねりこ, neriko) Kazakh: қамыр (qamyr) Khmer: ម្សៅលាបទឹក (msav liep tɨk) Korean: 떡 (ko) (tteok), 반죽 (ko) (banjuk) Kumyk: хамур (xamur) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھەویر‎ (ku) (hewîr) Northern Kurdish: hevîr (ku) m Kyrgyz: камыр (ky) (kamır) Latin: farīna f, pasta f Latvian: mīkla f Lithuanian: tešla f Low German: Deeg m Macedonian: тесто n (testo) Malay: doh (ms), anyu Maori: pokenga North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) dii n Norwegian: Bokmål: deig (no) m Occitan: pasta (oc) f, massa (oc) f Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: тѣсто n (těsto) Glagolitic: ⱅⱑⱄⱅⱁ n (těsto) Old East Slavic: тѣсто n (těsto) Old English: dāg m Oriya: please add this translation if you can Persian: خمیر‎ (fa) (xamir) Plautdietsch: Dieech m, Däjch m Polabian: ťostü n Polish: ciasto (pl) n Pontic Greek: ζυμάρι (zymári) Portuguese: massa (pt) f, pasta (pt) f Quechua: macka Romani: xumer m Romanian: aluat (ro) n, cocă (ro) f Russian: те́сто (ru) n (tésto) Scots: daich Scottish Gaelic: taois f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: те̑сто n (Ekavian), тије̑сто (Ijekavian) Roman: tȇsto (sh) n (Ekavian), tijȇsto (sh) n (Ijekavian) Slovak: cesto (sk) n Slovene: testo (sl) n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: śěsto n Spanish: masa (es) f, pasta (es) f Svan: ჴიც (qic) Swahili: mahamri (sw), kinyunya (sw) class 7/8 Swedish: deg (sv) c Tagalog: tapay, masa Tajik: хамир (tg) (xamir) Tatar: камыр (tt) (qamır) Thai: โด (th) (doo) Tibetan: སྤག (spag) Turkish: hamur (tr) Turkmen: hamyr Ukrainian: ті́сто n (tísto) Uyghur: خېمىر‎ (xëmir) Uzbek: xamir (uz) Vietnamese: bột (vi), bột nhồ, bột nhào, bột nhão Walloon: påsse (wa) f Welsh: toes (cy) West Frisian: daai (fy) c Yakan: addun Yiddish: טייג‎ n (teyg) Zazaki: mir

money (slang)

Bashkir: аҡса (aqsa) Bulgarian: мангизи pl (mangizi) Catalan: pasta (ca) f, calés (ca) m pl Chinese: Mandarin: 錢／钱 (zh) (qián) Finnish: hillo (fi) French: fric (fr) m, oseille (fr) f, galette (fr) f, pognon (fr) m, blé (fr) m, thune (fr) f, flouze (fr) m, grisbi (fr) m Georgian: მაყუთი (maq̇uti) German: Knete (de) f Greek: παράδες (el) m pl (parádes), φράγκα (el) n pl (frágka) Hungarian: dohány (hu) Italian: malloppo (it) m Polish: forsa (pl) Portuguese: grana (pt) f Romanian: mălai (ro) m Russian: ба́бки (ru) f pl (bábki), бабло́ (ru) n (babló), ба́шли (ru) f pl (bášli), бабо́сы (ru) m pl (babósy), бабу́льки (ru) f pl (babúlʹki) Spanish: pasta (es) f, guita (es) f, plata (es) f, mosca (es) f, lana (es) f, tela (es), cuartos (es) m, parné, perras (es) Swahili: mahamri (sw) Swedish: deg (sv) c Zazaki: kert

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• dougher

Further reading

• dough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia