Definition of DOUGH

dough

Plural: doughs

Noun

  • A thick, kneadable mixture of flour and liquid for baking.
  • a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
  • informal terms for money
  • 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.
  • Money.
  • Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).

Verb

  • To make into dough.

Examples

  • He had all the ingredients, but couldn’t form the DOUGH into a high-scoring word.
  • His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
  • Pizza dough is very stretchy.
  • The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

Origin / Etymology

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”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Norwegian Bokmål deig (“dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).
The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Scrabble Score: 10

dough: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dough: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dough: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

dough: valid Words With Friends Word