dough

plural doughs · alternative dow · alternative doff · alternative duff

1. uncountableusuallyA thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

   Pizza dough is very stretchy.

2. slanguncountableusuallyMoney.

   His mortgage payments left him short on dough.

   3 more examples

   "I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"

   1906, O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”, in The Four Million, page 170

   I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

   1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377

   “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.”

   2021 January 13, Gillian Friedman, “Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. USabbreviationclippingcountableslangusuallygovernmentClipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).

present singular third person doughs · participle present doughing · participle past doughed · past doughed · alternative dow · alternative doff · alternative duff

1. transitiveTo make into dough.

   The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.