dough

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a thick, moldable mixture of flour and liquid, often with other ingredients, that is baked into bread or pastry

   Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic.

2. 2
   noun

   money, in informal usage

   The summer job earned him enough dough to repair his car.

From Middle English dough and Old English dag, from a Proto-Germanic word also ancestral to German Teig and Dutch deeg. It ultimately relates to an Indo-European root meaning "to knead or form." The slang sense "money" arose in American English, probably through comparison with bread, another long-standing money metaphor.

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