Navy bakers knead, cut, whip, and roll dough
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Etymology
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From Middle English dow , dogh , dagh , from Old English dāg , from Proto-Germanic *daigaz ( “ dough ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- ( “ to knead, form, mold ” ) . Cognate with Scots daich , dauch , doach ( “ dough ” ) , West Frisian daai ( “ dough ” ) , Dutch deeg ( “ dough ” ) , Low German Deeg ( “ dough ” ) , German Teig ( “ dough ” ) , Norwegian Bokmål deig ( “ dough ” ) , Danish dej ( “ dough ” ) , Swedish deg ( “ dough ” ) , Icelandic deig ( “ dough ” ) .
The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
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dough (usually uncountable , plural doughs )
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 .
Pizza dough is very stretchy.
( slang , somewhat dated) money
His mortgage payments left him short on dough .
2021 January 13, Gillian Friedman, “Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling”, in The New York Times [1] , →ISSN :“It is already an incredibly saturated market,” Ms. Jones said of explicit content online. “The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.”
( US military slang , countable ) clipping of doughboy , infantryman
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mix of flour and other ingredients
Albanian: brumë (sq) f
Aleut: tiistax̂
Apache:
Western Apache: ikʼan nastʼood
Arabic: عَجِين m ( ʕajīn ) , عَجِينَة f ( ʕajīna )
Egyptian Arabic: عجين m ( ʕagīn )
Moroccan Arabic: عْجينة f ( ʕjina )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: לישא m ( layšā, layšo )
Syriac: ܠܝܫܐ m ( layšā, layšo )
Armenian: խմոր (hy) ( xmor )
Aromanian: aloat , aluat
Azerbaijani: xəmir (az)
Bashkir: ҡамыр ( qamır )
Basque: ore
Belarusian: це́ста n ( cjésta )
Bulgarian: тесто́ (bg) n ( testó )
Burmese: မုန့်ညက် (my) ( mun.nyak )
Catalan: pasta (ca) f , massa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 麵團 / 面团 ( miàntuán ) , 生麵糰 / 生面团 (zh) ( shēngmiàntuán )
Chuvash: чуста ( čusta )
Classical Nahuatl: textli , tlaoltextli
Cornish: past m
Crimean Tatar: qamır
Czech: těsto (cs) n
Danish: dej (da) c
Dutch: deeg (nl) n
Esperanto: pasto (eo)
Estonian: taigen
Faroese: deiggj n
Finnish: taikina (fi) , tahdas (fi)
French: pâte (fr) f
Galician: masa (gl) f , amoado (gl) m
Georgian: ცომი (ka) ( comi )
German: Teig (de) m
Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 m ( daigs )
Greek: ζύμη (el) f ( zými )
Ancient: σταῖς n ( staîs ) , φύραμα n ( phúrama )
Hebrew: בָּצֵק (he) m ( batsék )
Hindi: आटा (hi) m ( āṭā )
Hungarian: tészta (hu)
Icelandic: deig (is) n
Ido: pasto (io)
Indonesian: adonan (id)
Ingrian: taikina
Irish: taos (ga) m
Italian: pasta (it) f , impasto (it) m
Japanese: 生地 (ja) ( きじ, kiji ) , 練り粉 (ja) ( ねりこ, neriko )
Kalmyk: һуйр ( ğuyr )
Kazakh: қамыр ( qamyr )
Khmer: ម្សៅលាបទឹក ( msav liep tɨk )
Korean: 떡 (ko) ( tteok ) , 반죽 (ko) ( banjuk )
Kumyk: хамур ( xamur )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھەویر ( hewîr )
Northern Kurdish: hevîr (ku) m
Kyrgyz: камыр (ky) ( kamır )
Latin: farīna f , pasta f
Latvian: mīkla f
Lithuanian: tešla f
Low German: Deeg m
Macedonian: тесто n ( testo )
Malay: doh (ms) , anyu
Maori: pokenga
North Frisian: ( Föhr-Amrum ) dii n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: deig (no) m
Occitan: pasta (oc) f , massa (oc) f
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: тѣсто n ( těsto )
Glagolitic: ⱅⱑⱄⱅⱁ n ( těsto )
Old East Slavic: тѣсто n ( těsto )
Old English: dāg m
Persian: خمیر (fa) ( xamir )
Plautdietsch: Dieech m , Däjch m
Polabian: ťostü n
Polish: ciasto (pl) n
Pontic Greek: ζυμάρι ( zymári )
Portuguese: massa (pt) f , pasta (pt) f
Quechua: macka
Romani: xumer m
Romanian: aluat (ro) n , cocă (ro) f
Russian: те́сто (ru) n ( tésto )
Saterland Friesian: Dee
Scots: daich
Scottish Gaelic: taois f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: те̑сто n (Ekavian), тије̑сто (Ijekavian)
Roman: tȇsto (sh) n (Ekavian), tijȇsto (sh) n (Ijekavian)
Slovak: cesto (sk) n
Slovene: testo (sl) n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: śěsto n
Spanish: masa (es) f , pasta (es) f
Svan: ჴიც ( qic )
Swahili: mahamri (sw) , kinyunya (sw) class 7 /8
Swedish: deg (sv) c
Tagalog: tapay , masa
Tajik: хамир (tg) ( xamir )
Tarifit: aršti m
Tatar: камыр (tt) ( qamır )
Thai: โด (th) ( doo )
Tibetan: སྤག ( spag )
Turkish: hamur (tr)
Turkmen: hamyr
Ukrainian: ті́сто n ( tísto )
Uyghur: خېمىر ( xëmir )
Uzbek: xamir (uz)
Vietnamese: bột (vi) , bột nhồ , bột nhào , bột nhão
Walloon: påsse (wa) f
Welsh: toes (cy)
West Frisian: daai (fy) c
Yakan: addun
Yiddish: טייג n ( teyg )
Zazaki: mir (diq)
money (slang)
Bashkir: аҡса ( aqsa )
Bulgarian: мангизи pl ( mangizi )
Catalan: pasta (ca) f , calés (ca) m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錢 / 钱 (zh) ( qián )
Czech: prachy (cs)
Dutch: poen (nl) m , mula (nl) m , saaf m
Finnish: hillo (fi)
French: fric (fr) m , oseille (fr) f , galette (fr) f , pognon (fr) m , blé (fr) m , thune (fr) f , flouze (fr) m , grisbi (fr) m
Georgian: მაყუთი ( maq̇uti )
German: Knete (de) f
Greek: παράδες (el) m pl ( parádes ) , φράγκα (el) n pl ( frágka )
Hungarian: dohány (hu)
Italian: malloppo (it) m
Polish: forsa (pl)
Portuguese: grana (pt) f
Romanian: mălai (ro) m
Russian: ба́бки (ru) f pl ( bábki ) , бабло́ (ru) n ( babló ) , ба́шли (ru) f pl ( bášli ) , бабо́сы (ru) m pl ( babósy ) , бабу́льки (ru) f pl ( babúlʹki )
Spanish: pasta (es) f , guita (es) f , plata (es) f , mosca (es) f , lana (es) f , tela (es) , cuartos (es) m , parné , perras (es)
Swahili: mahamri (sw)
Swedish: deg (sv) c
Zazaki: kert
dough (third-person singular simple present doughs , present participle doughing , simple past and past participle doughed )
( transitive ) To make into dough .
The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.
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References
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Lighter, Jonathan (1972 ) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech [2] , volume 47 , number 1/2 , page 44
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