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Antonyms for dough

Grammar : Noun
Spell : doh
Phonetic Transcription : doʊ


Definition of dough

Origin :
  • Old English dag "dough," from Proto-Germanic *daigaz "something kneaded" (cf. Old Norse deig, Swedish deg, Middle Dutch deech, Dutch deeg, Old High German teic, German Teig, Gothic daigs "dough"), from PIE *dheigh- "to build, to form, to knead" (cf. Sanskrit dehah "body," literally "that which is formed," dih- "to besmear;" Greek teikhos "wall;" Latin fingere "to form, fashion," figura "a shape, form, figure;" Gothic deigan "to smear;" Old Irish digen "firm, solid," originally "kneaded into a compact mass"). Meaning "money" is from 1851.
  • noun money
Example sentences :
  • Knead the dough, let it rise again, and form it into loaves.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • In the silence the table creaked as Margaret kneaded the dough.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • You will also want tin cutters for cakes that are rolled out in dough.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • His tongue seemed to leave him, and he only held out his hand, with the dough in it.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • Take a piece of the dough from your baking after it has risen once.
  • Extract from : « Culture and Cooking » by Catherine Owen
  • Work the whole into a dough, and set it to the fire to rise.
  • Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
  • And of Claude.his banks with lumps of dough, instead of stones.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • If he's got any dough left, I may want to sell him something myself!
  • Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
  • It was not so very bad; It had no particular flavor, only the insipid taste of dough.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • Quite a pile of dough has gone wrong, and some of it was mine too!
  • Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

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