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dough

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
dəʊ

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. Money.
  3. mass
  4. Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:cash, currency, lucre, money.
  5. drove (large amount)
  6. Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
  7. a ring-shaped cake, with a hole in the middle, fried in fat. oliebol فَطيرَه مَقْلِيَّه донат donut kobliha der Krapfen doughnut ντόνατdónut pontšik, sõõrik دونات donitsi beigneסופגנייה डोनट, एक प्रकार का बिस्कुट krafna fánk donat kleinuhringur ciambella ドーナツ 도넛 riesta spurga virtulis donut donutsmultring rodzaj pączka په غوړو كې پخه شوې ډوډۍ donut gogoaşă пончик pampúch krof krofna munk ขนมโดนัท donat, halka lokma 油炸圈餅 пончик میٹھے آٹے کا bánh cam vòng 炸面饼圈,油炸圈饼
  8. third-person singular present indicative
  9. A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
  10. second-person singular imperative
  11. Slang Money.
  12. (Cookery) a thick mixture of flour or meal and water or milk, used for making bread, pastry, etc
  13. (Cookery) any similar pasty mass
  14. a slang word for money
  15. flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc. in a thick, pliable mass for baking into bread, pastry, etc.
  16. any similar soft, pasty mass.
  17. Slang. money.

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Examples

Pizza dough is very stretchy.”
His mortgage payments left him short on dough.”
“"I want to see four dollars before goin' any further on th' thrip. Have ye got th' dough?"”
“I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.”
““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.””

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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