dough

Noun
US[doh]/doʊ/1 syllable

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or rollType of concoction, mixtureKinds bread dough, yeast dough, pastryMade of flour
  2. informal terms for moneySynonyms: boodlebreadcabbageclamsdinerogeltkalelettucelollylucrelootmoolahpelfscratchshekelssimoleonssugarwampumType of money
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Translations

Noun mix of flour and other ingredients

Spanish
masa
French
pâte
German
Teig
Italian
pasta
Portuguese
massa
Turkish
hamur
Russian
те́сто tésto
Arabic
عَجِين ʕajīn
Chinese
面团 miàntuán
Japanese
生地 kiji
31 more languages
Dutch
deeg
Polish
ciasto
Swedish
deg
Greek
ζύμη zými
Korean
반죽 banjuk
Indonesian
adonan
Vietnamese
bột
Hungarian
tészta
Portuguese (PT)
massa
Chinese (Trad.)
麵團 miàntuán
Albanian
brumë
Catalan
massa
Czech
těsto
Danish
dej
Esperanto
pasto
Estonian
taigen
Finnish
taikina
Georgian
ცომი comi
Hebrew
בָּצֵק batsék
Icelandic
deig
Kurdish
hevîr
Latvian
mīkla
Norwegian
deig
Romanian
aluat
Scottish Gaelic
taois
Serbo-Croatian
tijesto
Slovak
cesto
Slovenian
testo
Walloon
påsse
Welsh
toes
Yiddish
טייג teyg

Noun money

Spanish
pasta
French
fric
German
Kohle
Portuguese
grana
Russian
бабло́ babló
Dutch
poen
Polish
forsa
Swedish
deg
Hungarian
dohány
Portuguese (PT)
grana
2 more languages
Czech
prachy
Finnish
hillo

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Dough noun

Origin: OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. dāh; 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.

2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.

To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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