dough

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) 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, uncountable, usually) Money.
3. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, usually) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).

Verb

To make into dough.

Sinonieme

batter

paste

pastry

loot

lolly

bread

🍞

dosh

flour

money

💸

lettuce

kale

noodles

pelf

dope

boodle

cabbage

cash

💸

clams

gelt

lucre

mash

meal

mush

pasta

rocks

scratch

spread

sugar

wampum

shekels

moolah

dinero

simoleons

cheese

🧀

cement

pennies

powder

funds

ferment

damper

pulp

zyme

roll

mix

currency

monies

Shekel

cram

paper

yeast

Vertalings

pasta

pâte

masa

Teig

deeg

pasta

massa

fric

pognon

pasta

ζύμη

impasto

grana

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dəʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dow

Geërf van Old English: dāg

Verwante met Skots: daich

Verwante met Fries: daai

Verwante met Nederlands: deeg

Verwante met Nederduits: Deeg

Verwante met Duits: Teig

Verwante met Boeknoors: deig

Verwante met Deens: dej

Verwante met Sweeds: deg

Verwante met Yslands: deig

In summary

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”).
Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”).
The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.