Dough
Dough , noun
[Old English dagh, dogh, dow, Anglo-Saxon dāh; akin to Dutch deeg, German teig, Icelandic deig, Swedish deg, Danish deig, Gothic daigs; also, to Gothic deigan to knead, Latin fingere to form, shape, Sanskrit dih to smear; compare Greek {not transcribed} wall, {not transcribed} to touch, handle. {not transcribed}. Compare 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.
2.
Anything of the consistency of such paste.
Collocations (1)
To have one's cake dough , See under Cake.