English Explanatory Dictionary

dough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
  2. Money.
  3. Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
verb
  1. To make into dough.

Pronunciation

/dəʊ/ en-uk-dough.ogg /doʊ/ [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ] en-us-dough.ogg /dʊf/ /ɖo/ /ɖəf/

Word forms

dough doughs dow doff duff doughing doughed

Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Derived words

bread dough cookie dough donut dough-baked doughball doughbird doughboy doughface dough-faced dough gob dough goddy doughless doughlike doughmaking Doughman dough mixer doughnut dough scraper doughy fried dough hard dough bread live dough mother dough one's cake is dough playdough predough roll in dough rolling in dough salt dough sourdough starter dough dougher
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