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dough
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dough  (d)
n.
1.
a. A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
b. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
2. Slang Money.

[Middle English dogh, from Old English dg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

dough [dəʊ]
n
1. (Cookery) a thick mixture of flour or meal and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, etc.
2. (Cookery) any similar pasty mass
3. a slang word for money
[Old English dāg; related to Old Norse deig, Gothic daigs, Old High German teig dough, Sanskrit degdhi he daubs; see dairy, duff1, lady]

dough - As in money, it almost certainly came from bread (another slang term for it), because bread is the staff of life.
See also related terms for staff.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dough - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or rolldough - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
pastry, pastry dough - a dough of flour and water and shortening
bread dough - any of various doughs for bread
concoction, intermixture, mixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
2.dough - informal terms for moneydough - informal terms for money            
money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us"
Translations
dough [dəʊ] N
1. (Culin) → masa f, pasta f
2. (= money) → guita f, pasta f (Sp) , plata f (LAm) , lana f (LAm)

dough [ˈdəʊ] n
(= mixture) → pâte f
(= money) → fric m >, pognon m >

dough
n
Teig m
(inf: = money) → Kohle f (inf)

dough:
doughball
nKloß m
doughboy
n (dated US Mil sl) → Landser m (inf)
dough hook
n (Cook) → Knethaken m
doughnut
n (Brit) → Berliner (Pfannkuchen) m, → Krapfen m (S Ger, Aus)
doughnutting
n (Brit Parl inf) Situation, in der sich wenige anwesende Abgeordnete im Unterhaus um den Redner gruppieren, um im Fernsehen den Eindruck eines vollen Hauses zu vermitteln

dough [dəʊ] n
a.impasto, pasta
b. (fam) (money) → grana

dough [dəu]
1  noun a mass of flour moistened and kneaded but not baked.
2 (slang) money.
n doughnut [-nat, (American ) -nət]
a ring-shaped cake, with a hole in the middle, fried in fat. oliebol فَطيرَه مَقْلِيَّه донат kobliha doughnut der Krapfen ντόνατ dónut pontšik, sõõrik دونات donitsi beigne סוּפגָנִייָה डोनट, एक प्रकार का बिस्कुट krafna fánk donat kleinuhringur ciambella ドーナツ 도넛 riesta spurga virtulis donut doughnut smultring rodzaj pączka donut gogoaşă пончик pampúch krof krofna munk ขนมโดนัท donat, halka lokma 油炸圈餅 пончик میٹھے آٹے کا bánh cam vòng

dough عجينه těsto dej Teig ζύμη masa taikina pâte tijesto impasto パン生地 반죽 deeg deig ciasto massa тесто deg ส่วนผสมของแป้ง น้ำและอื่นๆเช่นน้ำมัน น้ำตาลเพื่อทำขนมปัง hamur bột nhào làm bánh 面团


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