dough

4 definitions found

dough - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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dough - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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 - 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).

dough - 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