dough

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

pasta

pâte

masa

Teig

deeg

pasta

massa

fric

pognon

pasta

ζύμη

impasto

grana

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dəʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dow

Inherited from Old English: dāg

Cognate with Scots: daich

Cognate with Western Frisian: daai

Cognate with Dutch: deeg

Cognate with Low German: Deeg

Cognate with German: Teig

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: deig

Cognate with Danish: dej

Cognate with Swedish: deg

Cognate with Icelandic: 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.