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dough (dō)

noun

  1. a mixture of flour, liquid, leavening, and other ingredients, worked into a soft, thick mass for baking into bread, pastry, etc.
  2. any pasty mass like this
  3. ☆ Slang money

Etymology: ME < OE dag, akin to Goth daigs, Ger teig < IE base *dheiĝh-, to knead, form > Gr teichos, wall, L fingere, to form

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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