dough

dough
    n 1: a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
    2: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread}, {cabbage},
       {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale}, {lettuce},
       {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf}, {scratch},
       {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}]
    

Dough \Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; akin to D.
   deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs;
   also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape,
   Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. Cf.
   {Feign}, {Figure}, {Dairy}, {Duff}.]
   1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal,
      kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead
      dough.
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   2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.
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   {To have one's cake dough}. See under {Cake}.
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Dough
(batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough
the Israelites had prepared for baking was carried away by them
out of Egypt in their kneading-troughs (Ex. 12:34, 39). In the
process of baking, the dough had to be turned (Hos. 7:8).
    

108 Moby Thesaurus words for "dough":
      albumen, batter, blubber, blunt, bonnyclabber, boodle, brass,
      bread, breeze, bucks, butter, cabbage, cash, chips, clabber, clay,
      coin, cornstarch, cream, curd, currency, cushion, dinero, down,
      egg white, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue,
      fluff, foam, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelt, gilt, glair, glop, glue,
      gluten, goo, gook, goop, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks,
      gruel, gumbo, gunk, jack, jam, jell, jelly, kale, kapok,
      legal tender, loblolly, mazuma, molasses, moolah, mopus, mucilage,
      mucus, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, pap, paste, pillow,
      plush, porridge, pudding, puff, pulp, puree, putty, rhino, rob,
      rocks, rubber, satin, scratch, semifluid, semiliquid, shekels,
      silk, simoleons, size, soup, spondulics, starch, sticky mess,
      sugar, swansdown, syrup, the needful, thistledown, tin, treacle,
      velvet, wampum, wax, wool, zephyr