From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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}.]
1. 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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2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.
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{To have one's cake dough}. See under {Cake}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dough
n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
2: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage},
{clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale}, {lettuce},
{lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch},
{shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}]
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