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DOUGH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("dough" is a kind of...):
concoction; intermixture; mixture (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients)
Meronyms (substance of "dough"):
flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dough"):
pastry; pastry dough (a dough of flour and water and shortening)
bread dough (any of various doughs for bread)
Derivation:
doughy (having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal terms for money
Synonyms:
boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("dough" is a kind of...):
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
