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.
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2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.
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To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dough
n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre,
loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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