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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.

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

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dough

Noun

1. a thick mixture of flour and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, or biscuits

2. Slang money [Old English dāg]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	dough - 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 money clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, boodle, shekels, simoleons, wampum, bread, cabbage, loot, scratch, sugar money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us"

Translations

dough [dəu] n → masa, pasta;

(col) (= money); pasta, lana (LAM)

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dough [dəu] n → pâte f;

(inf) (= money); fric m, pognon m

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dough [dəu] n → Teig m;

(inf) (money) → Kohle f, Knete f

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dough [dəu] n → pasta, impasto;

(col) (= money); grana