How to spell dough

Dough is spelled D-O-U-G-H.

hear itdough/doʊ/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A mixture of flour and water used for baking.

In a sentence: The baker used dough to make yummy bread.

Same family: money, cash, bucks, funds, savings. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The slang use of "dough" for money comes from the older meaning of dough as bread mixture—since bread was a basic food and often associated with livelihood, the word began to be used humorously for cash. This figurative sense in American English has been recorded since the 19th century.

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