# dough

Pronunciation: say "DOH" US /doʊ/, UK /dəʊ/

## Noun

1. A thick, pliable mixture of flour and other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, shaped into a particular form and then baked.
   - Simple: A soft, thick mix of flour with water or other things, which you shape and then bake.
   - _Let the bread dough rise in a warm place for about an hour._
   - _She rolled the pie dough thin and pressed it into the dish._
2. Money. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Money that someone has, earns, or spends.
   - _That food truck is making serious dough on weekends._
   - _Lend me some dough till payday, would you?_
4. Clipping of doughboy. Dated US slang. *(slang, US)* — Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
   - Simple: Short for doughboy, an American foot soldier, especially in World War I. This is old slang.

## Verb

3. To turn flour or a similar ingredient into dough.
   - Simple: To mix flour with water or other things to make a dough.
   - _Large mixers dough the flour and water before the loaves are shaped._
   - _For the test, each flour sample was doughed with the same amount of water._

## Origin

From Middle English dow, dogh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz ("dough"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ("to knead, form, mold"); it is related to Dutch deeg, German Teig and Swedish deg. How it came to mean money is obscure, but that sense dates to the mid 19th century.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dough (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).