dough
dough / dō/ • n. 1. a thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry.2. inf. money: lots of dough.DERIVATIVES: dough·i·ness n.dough·y adj. (dough·i·er, dough·i·est) .ORIGIN: Old English dāg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch deeg and German Teig, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘smear, knead.’
dough
dough OE. dāg = MLG. dēch (Du. deg), OHG. teic (G. teig), ON. deig, Goth. daigs :- Gmc. *daiʒaz, f. IE. base *dhoigh- *dheigh- *dhigh- smear, knead (so Goth. digan), whence also Skr. degdhi smears, L. fingere (see FICTION), Gr. teîkhos, toîkhos wall, Lith. dýẑti thrash.
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