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dough
/doʊ/
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What does dough mean?
noun
- 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.
- (slang) Money.
- (slang) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
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verb
- To make into dough.
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I delivered them into the hands of the chairman of the Board with the comfortable consciousness that their cake was dough.
Even a weak acid, as the lactic acid of sour milk, sets this free, and thus causes the dough to rise.
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Each rolls up a piece of dough, spreads it out thin and flat, and marks initials on it with a new pin.
It is simply a chunk of tenacious dough, made of flour and water only, and soaked for a few minutes in warm grease.