dough

noun

ˈdō 

1

: a mixture that consists essentially of flour or meal and a liquid (such as milk or water) and is stiff enough to knead or roll

2

: something resembling dough especially in consistency

3

: money

doesn't have much dough

4

military : doughboy

doughlike

ˈdō-ˌlīk 

adjective

Synonyms

• bread [slang]
• bucks
• cabbage [slang]
• cash
• change
• chips
• coin
• currency
• gold
• green
• jack [slang]
• kale [slang]
• legal tender
• lolly [British]
• long green [slang]
• loot
• lucre
• money
• moola [slang]
• moolah
• needful
• pelf
• scratch [slang]
• shekels
• sheqels
• shekelim
• shekalim
• sheqalim
• tender
• wampum

Examples of dough in a Sentence

I don't have much dough.

didn't have to spend a lot of dough for a new stereo

Recent Examples on the Web

Play-Doh Pizza Delivery Scooter Playset $95 $71 at Amazon $95 $75 at Kohls.com Let imagination run wild with this Play-Doh set that comes with everything a delivery driver needs: a scooter, pizza boxes, and dough for the pies. —Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024

In recent years, salmonella outbreaks have been found in eggs, pet turtles, raw cookie dough, and peanut butter. —Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024

Interested in blending grains, whether that mean grinding your own flour or whizzing up batters or bread doughs? —Donna Kim, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024

Brush tips of dough with egg white, and sprinkle with sparkling sugar. —Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Middle English doh, dogh, dowe, going back to Old English dāg, going back to Germanic *daiga- (whence Middle Dutch deech "dough," Old High German teig, Old Norse deig, deigr, Gothic daigs), ablaut derivative from the base of *digan-, *dīgan- "to knead, shape" (whence Gothic digan, gadigan "to knead, form from clay"), going back to Indo-European *d^hei̯ǵ^h- "knead, shape" — more at feign

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing dough

• dough box
• mother dough
• rolling in (the) dough

Kids Definition

dough

noun

ˈdō 

1

: a soft mass of moistened flour or meal thick enough to knead or roll

2

: something resembling dough especially in consistency

3

: money sense 1a

doughy

ˈdō-ē

adjective