dough
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as…A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
» Did you make lots of dough?
Hast du viel Teig gemacht? — Waldelfe
Habt ihr viel Teig gemacht? — Waldelfe
Haben Sie viel Teig gemacht? — Waldelfe
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2 senses(uncountable, usually)A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
Pizza dough is very stretchy.
Teig
те́стоtésto
ті́стоtísto
(slang, uncountable, usually)Money.
His mortgage payments left him short on dough.
Knete, Kohle
ба́бкиbábki, бабло́babló, ба́шлиbášli
informal terms for money
Examples
122 sentencesDid you make lots of dough?
deHast du viel Teig gemacht? — Waldelfe
Tom has made a pile of dough.
Put the dough in the refrigerator overnight.
deDen Teig über Nacht im Kühlschrank ruhen lassen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I'm kneading the dough.
deIch knete den Teig. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I kneaded the dough.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dFrom Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”).
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Forms
plural: doughsSynonyms
17 synonymsWord family
24 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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