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dough

/doʊ/

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What does dough mean?

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. (slang) Money.
  3. (slang) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
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verb

  1. 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.
Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtProject Gutenberg ebook #86
Even a weak acid, as the lactic acid of sour milk, sets this free, and thus causes the dough to rise.
Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) WilliamsAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #3708
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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.
Mary E. BlainGames for Hallow-e'enProject Gutenberg ebook #5890
It is simply a chunk of tenacious dough, made of flour and water only, and soaked for a few minutes in warm grease.
Thomas StevensAround the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to TeheranProject Gutenberg ebook #5136