Crossword clues for dough
dough
- Money (slang)
- Breadmaker's raw material
- Bread of the future
- Potential bread
- Pizza need
- Money, slang
- Breadmaker's need
- Uncooked bread
- Step 5: Bake
- Scones' start
- Pizza maker's stuff
- Money in slang
- It may be given the hook
- Breadmaking material
- Breadmaker's dinero?
- Bread, before baking
- Bread or lettuce
- Bread maker's mixture
- Biscuits' beginning
- Wampum
- Moolah
- Long green
- Mazuma
- A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
- Informal terms for money
- Moola
- Yeasty substance
- Cabbage or kale
- Money from party that's awful!
- Mass of moistened flour
- Claim note is ready
- Sticky stuff for baker or cook that's disgusting!
- Flour and water mixture
- Bread-making mixture
- Bread mixture; money
- Homer's expression involves prelude to Ulysses, good and ready
- Pizzeria need
- Money, informally
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.]
Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
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Anything of the consistency of such paste.
To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English dag "dough," from Proto-Germanic *daigaz "something kneaded" (cognates: Old Norse deig, Swedish deg, Middle Dutch deech, Dutch deeg, Old High German teic, German Teig, Gothic daigs "dough"), from PIE *dheigh- "to build, to form, to knead" (cognates: Sanskrit dehah "body," literally "that which is formed," dih- "to besmear;" Greek teikhos "wall;" Latin fingere "to form, fashion," figura "a shape, form, figure;" Gothic deigan "to smear;" Old Irish digen "firm, solid," originally "kneaded into a compact mass"). Meaning "money" is from 1851.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. 2 (context slang English) money. vb. (context transitive English) To make into dough.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic, paste made out of any grains, leguminous or chestnut crops. Dough is typically made by mixing flour with a small amount of juice and/or other liquid, and sometimes includes yeast or other leavening agents as well as other ingredients such as various fats or flavorings.
The process of making and shaping dough is a precursor to making a wide variety of foodstuffs, particularly breads and bread-based items, but also including biscuits, cakes, cookies, dumplings, flatbreads, noodles, pasta, pastry, pizza, piecrusts, and similar items. Doughs are made from a wide variety of flours, commonly wheat but also flours made from maize, rice, rye, legumes, almonds, and other cereals and crops used around the world.
"Dough" is the fourth episode of the third series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 27 January 1995.
Usage examples of "dough".
Heln gave Kelvin a startled look, then put down the dough for the exotic dish she was making: an appleberry pie whose recipe had been in both their families.
Kelvin a startled look, then put down the dough for the exotic dish she was making: an appleberry pie whose recipe had been in both their families.
In the mornings, Lissar began the meal that would be their supper, putting bread dough together to rise, cutting up the solid bits that would go into the stew, melting snow for water, deciding if she could spare the bucket to make soup in or whether she needed to use the less reliable method of burying a lidded bowl in the ashes and hoping the contents would cook.
Amadan of the Dough, and I have killed Slat Mor, Slat Man, Slat Beag, the Cailliach of the Rocks and her four badachs, the Black Bull of the Brown Woods, the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls, and the Beggarman of the King of Sweden, and before night I will have killed the Silver Cat of the Seven Glens.
A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough.
I pulled up under a chinaball tree by the back porch and tapped my horn, expecting to see Beulah appear at the screen door with her hands full of biscuit dough and an ample print apron protecting her Sunday dress against flour smudges.
Where it happened was west of Cleveland, at the far edge of Cuyahoga County, under a big white tent, the hot dusk air tangy with the smells of fried dough, manure, and roasted corn.
Spoon dough on a dehydrator tray with a teflex sheet and form into small round cookie.
He doubles back to her on repeated, suck-up visits, cementing their wary truce with miscalculated small gifts: dried dough he swears will come back to life if soaked, half of a sundered walkie-talkie set, worthless books washed up in the tidal pools of trade, tides only she would read.
One writer, who evidently has not read Poilane, recommends tying plastic bags round the handles of your water faucets to avoid sealing them closed when the dough from your hands dries and hardens on them.
In fact, Sparks tells Fatso that she is now feeling like marrying a young guy by the name of Johnny Relf who also has plenty of dough or will have when his parents kindly pass away.
Beryal had covered the bread dough with a gauzelike cloth and was slicing pale green roots into a skillet.
Sally Gerlach stood at the board with her hands in a vat of dough, and stared at the half-naked man before her.
The workers at the cryolite quarry have a sparkle in their eyes, the industrial tycoons that earn the dough have a sparkle in their eyes, the Greenlandic cleanup staff have a sparkle in their eyes, and the blue fjords of Greenland are full of reflections and flashes of sunshine.
Trey dashed his wash water onto a patch of brush and then settled down in front of the cookfire to watch Jiggers stir up a batch of skillet-bread dough.