Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- noun A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
- noun Slang Money.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mass composed of flour or meal prepared for baking into bread or cake by various processes, as moistening, mixing with yeast, salt, etc., raising (after which it is called
sponge ), and kneading, or for simpler kinds by moistening and mixing only; paste of bread. - noun Something having the appearance or consistency of dough, as potter’ clay, etc.
- noun A little cake.
- noun Money; ‘boodle.’
- To make into dough.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked.
- noun Anything of the consistency of such paste.
- noun See under
Cake .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thick,
malleable substance made by mixingflour with other ingredients such aswater ,eggs , and/orbutter , that is made into a particular form and thenbaked . - noun slang
Money . - verb transitive To make into dough.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for money
- noun a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dough.
Examples
-
The dough is wrapped around butter (so that the butter is completely enclosed in dough and cannot slip out), the “package” is rolled out, folded over to double the number of layers, and then the whole thing is repeated.
-
The english muffin dough is a no-knead batter that is mixed up and allowed to rise for just a short period of time.
-
Chelsea from Rolling in dough is the host of BreadBakingDay #5.
-
Pizza dough is always made by hand; I'm just old school that way.
One For The Table: My New Best Friend One For The Table 2010
-
Pizza dough is always made by hand; I'm just old school that way.
One For The Table: My New Best Friend One For The Table 2010
-
This dough is a good choice for fried pies because it holds up so well and has good buttery flavor.
-
This dough is a good choice for fried pies because it holds up so well and has good buttery flavor.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
-
I think this dough is an adaptation of a Reinhart recipe, though I'm really not sure (all my IE favourites bit the dust recently * sob*).
Creature of Habit Sarah 2009
-
YUM - homemade pizza dough is the best - I bet this was delicious!
-
Pizza dough is always made by hand; I'm just old school that way.
One For The Table: My New Best Friend One For The Table 2010
bilby commented on the word dough
See etymology of lady.
May 16, 2018