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play-doh

play-doh is the alternative form of playdough.

Meaning of playdough

Noun

playdough (countable and uncountable, plural playdoughs)

  1. Modeling clay for children.

Noun capitalized: Play-Doh

Play-Doh (uncountable)

  1. Playdough from the brand Play-Doh.
    • A centurion who resembled a katydid waved something that looked like a pop-up toaster, and the next thing I knew, my laser melted, my shields were Play-Doh, and some kind of high energy plasma blasted me all the way down to Level 6. I fought my way back okay, but this time my path was blocked by...2019, Gordon Korman, Level 13: A Slacker Novel, Scholastic Press, page 114

Origin of play-doh

From the trademarked respelling Play-Doh.

Questions about play-doh

What does play-doh mean?
Play-doh means playdough from the brand Play-Doh.
What is play-doh the alternative form of?
Play-doh is the alternative form of playdough.
What part of speech is play-doh?
Play-doh is a noun.

Words near play-doh in the dictionary

  1. play-by-mails
  2. play-by-play
  3. play-by-plays
  4. play-by-snail-mail
  5. play-calling
  6. play-doh
  7. play-house
  8. play-houses
  9. play-of-color
  10. play-of-colour
  11. play-off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play-doh (page history and authors); Play-Doh (page history and authors); playdough (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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