dough : Idioms & Phrases


bread dough

  • noun any of various doughs for bread
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dough-baked

Dough"-baked` adjective
Definitions
  1. Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. Colloq. Halliwell.
Webster 1913

dough-faced

Dough"-faced` adjective
Definitions
  1. Easily molded; pliable.
Webster 1913

dough-kneaded

Dough"-knead`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Like dough; soft.
    He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing. Milton.
Webster 1913

pastry dough

  • noun a dough of flour and water and shortening
    pastry.
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To have one's cake dough

  • to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.
Webster 1913