dough
/dəʊ//doʊ/
dough noun: a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. Also the clipping of doughboy.
Noun
dough (usually uncountable, plural doughs)
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- Pizza dough is very stretchy.
- Money.
- His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
- "I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"1906, O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”, in The Four Million, page 170
Verb
dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)
- To make into dough.
- The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
Also used as
dough is also the clipping of doughboy.
dough meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic
dough in Hindi
- mix of flour and other ingredients
- लोई loī
dough in Urdu
- mix of flour and other ingredients
- آٹا āṭā
dough in Tagalog
- mix of flour and other ingredients
- tapay, masa
dough in Arabic
- mix of flour and other ingredients
- عَجِين ʕajīn, عَجِينَة ʕajīna
More languagesFewer languages
- dough in Malay
- doh, anyu
- dough in Indonesian
- adonan
- dough in Thai
- โด doo
- dough in Vietnamese
- bột, bột nhồ, bột nhào, bột nhão
- dough in Myanmar
- မုန့်ညက် mun.nyak
Examples of dough in a sentence
- I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:
- “The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.”2021 January 13, Gillian Friedman, “Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Forms of dough
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doughs |
| alternative form | dow |
| alternative form | doff |
| alternative form | duff |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doughs |
| present participle | doughing |
| past participle | doughed |
| past | doughed |
Origin of dough
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”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
Words formed from dough
- dougher
- bread dough
- cookie dough
- donut
- dough-baked
- doughball
- doughbird
- doughboy
- doughface
- dough-faced
- dough gob
- dough goddy
- doughless
- doughlike
- doughmaking
- Doughman
- dough mixer
- doughnut
- dough scraper
- doughy
- fried dough
- hard dough bread
- live dough
- mother dough
- one's cake is dough
- playdough
- plum dough
- predough
- roll in dough
- rolling in dough
- salt dough
- sourdough
- starter dough
Phrases with dough
Words that rhyme with dough
Questions about dough
- What does dough mean?
- Dough means a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- What is dough in Hindi?
- Dough in Hindi is लोई (loī). See Dough meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use dough in a sentence?
- I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough.
- What part of speech is dough?
- Dough can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce dough?
- Dough is pronounced /dəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dough?
- The plural of dough is doughs.
Words near dough in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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