Dough

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dəʊ/
• US IPA: /doÊŠ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: do (music), doe, doh, d'oh

Alternative forms

• dow, doff, duff dialectal

Origin

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāh, dāg (""), from Proto-Germanic *daigaz ("dough"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʰ- ("to knead, form, mold"). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach ("dough"), West Frisian daai ("dough"), Dutch deeg ("dough"), Low German Deeg ("dough"), German Teig ("dough"), Danish dej ("dough"), Swedish deg ("dough"), Icelandic deig ("dough").

Full definition of dough

Noun

1. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.Pizza dough is very stretchy.
2. (slang) Money.His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

Derived terms

• rolling in dough

Verb

1. (transitive) To make into dough.The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

Derived terms

• dougher