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doughy

/ˈdəʊˌi/US/ˈdoʊi/

doughy adjective: pale and flabby,.

Adjective

doughy (comparative doughier, superlative doughiest)

  1. Pale and flabby,
  2. Soft and heavy.
    • Sweat bee life begins as an egg laid on or near its doughy pollen mass.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 60

Noun

doughy (plural doughies)

  1. (archaic, slang) A baker.
    • The manufactory of sugar is generally in German hands. An attempt has, I believe, been made by Parisian “doughies” to establish a footing in London; […]1873, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, page 698

doughy meaning in Tamil

doughy in Tamil

விரலின் அழுத்தப்பதிவுகள்

Forms of doughy

Adjective
comparativedoughier
superlativedoughiest
Noun
pluraldoughies

Origin of doughy

From dough + -y.

Words formed from doughy

Words that rhyme with doughy

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about doughy

What does doughy mean?
Doughy means pale and flabby,.
What is doughy in Tamil?
Doughy in Tamil is விரலின் அழுத்தப்பதிவுகள். See Doughy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is doughy?
Doughy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce doughy?
Doughy is pronounced /ˈdəʊˌi/ (UK).

Words near doughy in the dictionary

  1. doughtily
  2. doughtiness
  3. doughts
  4. doughty
  5. Doughtys
  6. doughy
  7. dougie
  8. dougied
  9. dougies
  10. Dougla
  11. Douglas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doughy (page history and authors); doughy (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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