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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. examples
(slang, somewhat dated) Money. quotations
"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, 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
third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed
(transitive) To make into dough. examples