DOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dough mean? 

• DOUGH (noun)
  The noun DOUGH has 2 senses:

1. a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll

2. informal terms for money

  Familiarity information: DOUGH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("dough" is a kind of...):

concoction; intermixture; mixture (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients)

Meronyms (substance of "dough"):

flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dough"):

pastry; pastry dough (a dough of flour and water and shortening)

bread dough (any of various doughs for bread)

Derivation:

doughy (having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Hypernyms ("dough" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

 Context examples 

“What about the dough?” he asked.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They called themselves Sour-doughs, and took great pride in so classifying themselves.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter.

(Pastry, NCI Thesaurus)

Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: “I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He thawed some sour-dough biscuits in the oven, at the same time heating a pot of beans he had boiled the night before and that had ridden frozen on the sled all morning.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

First he took from his bag a mass of what looked like thin, wafer-like biscuit, which was carefully rolled up in a white napkin; next he took out a double-handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“We will bake first,” said the old woman, “I have already heated the oven, and kneaded the dough.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking- powder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)