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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOUGH, n. Do. [G.] Paste of bread; a mass composed of flour or meal moistened and kneaded, but not baked.
My cake is dough, that is, by undertaking has not come to maturity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English dogh, from Old English d?g; akin to Old High German teic dough, Latin fingere to shape, Greek teichos wall Date: before 12th century 1. a mixture that consists essentially of flour or meal and a liquid (as milk or water) and is stiff enough to knead or roll 2. something resembling dough especially in consistency 3. money 4. doughboy • doughlike adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a thick mixture of flour etc. and liquid (usu. water), for baking into bread, pastry, etc. 2 sl. money. Etymology: OE dag f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dough Dough, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. Cf. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.] 1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough. 2. Anything of the consistency of such paste. To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(doughs) Note: In meaning 2, 'dough' is used in informal American English, and is considered old-fashioned in informal British English. 1. Dough is a fairly firm mixture of flour, water, and sometimes also fat and sugar. It can be cooked to make bread, pastry, and biscuits. Roll out the dough into one large circle... N-MASS 2. You can refer to money as dough. He worked hard for his dough.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

do. See BREAD.

Moby Thesaurus

albumen, batter, blubber, blunt, bonnyclabber, boodle, brass, bread, breeze, bucks, butter, cabbage, cash, chips, clabber, clay, coin, cornstarch, cream, curd, currency, cushion, dinero, down, egg white, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelt, gilt, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, gruel, gumbo, gunk, jack, jam, jell, jelly, kale, kapok, legal tender, loblolly, mazuma, molasses, moolah, mopus, mucilage, mucus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pap, paste, pillow, plush, porridge, pudding, puff, pulp, puree, putty, rhino, rob, rocks, rubber, satin, scratch, semifluid, semiliquid, shekels, silk, simoleons, size, soup, spondulics, starch, sticky mess, sugar, swansdown, syrup, the needful, thistledown, tin, treacle, velvet, wampum, wax, wool, zephyr