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dough

  • noun
  • /dəʊ/

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.

Example

“Pizza dough is very stretchy.”

Related words

  • donut
  • plum dough
  • doughball
  • doughbird
  • doughface
  • doughless
  • doughlike
  • doughmaking
  • Doughman
  • playdough
  • predough
  • sourdough

Example sentences

  • “I put too much flour in the cookie dough.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old English "dāg".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “dough” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.