Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
  • noun A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
  • noun Slang Money.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mass composed of flour or meal prepared for baking into bread or cake by various processes, as moistening, mixing with yeast, salt, etc., raising (after which it is called sponge), and kneading, or for simpler kinds by moistening and mixing only; paste of bread.
  • noun Something having the appearance or consistency of dough, as potter’ clay, etc.
  • noun A little cake.
  • noun Money; ‘boodle.’
  • To make into dough.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked.
  • noun Anything of the consistency of such paste.
  • noun See under Cake.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun slang Money.
  • verb transitive To make into dough.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun informal terms for money
  • noun a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dogh, from Old English dāg; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Old English dāh, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeigʰ- (“to knead”). Cognate with Dutch deeg, German Teig, Swedish deg.

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