- doughy
- dough ► NOUN 1) a thick mixture of flour and liquid, for baking into bread or pastry. 2) informal money.DERIVATIVES doughy adjective (doughier, doughiest) .ORIGIN Old English.
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Doughy — Dough y (d[=o] [y^]), a. Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
doughy — [dō′ē] adj. doughier, doughiest of or like dough; soft, pasty, flabby, etc. doughiness n … English World dictionary
doughy — adjective (doughier; est) Date: 1601 resembling dough: as a. not thoroughly baked < doughy bread > b. unhealthily pale ; pasty < a doughy face > … New Collegiate Dictionary
doughy — doughiness, n. /doh ee/, adj., doughier, doughiest. of or like dough, esp. in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face. [1595 1605; DOUGH + Y1] * * * … Universalium
doughy — [[t]do͟ʊi[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as doughy, you mean that it has a fairly soft texture like dough. Add water and mix with a knife to a doughy consistency … English dictionary
doughy — UK [ˈdəʊɪ] / US [ˈdoʊɪ] adjective Word forms doughy : adjective doughy comparative doughier superlative doughiest soft and easily stretched … English dictionary
doughy — dough|y [ˈdəui US ˈdoui] adj 1.) looking and feeling like dough 2.) doughy skin is pale and soft and looks unhealthy … Dictionary of contemporary English
doughy — adjective 1 looking and feeling like dough (1) 2 doughy skin is unhealthily pale and soft … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
doughy — adjective /ˈdəʊˌi/ a) having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as b) pale and flabby … Wiktionary
doughy — Synonyms and related words: adhesive, amylaceous, ashen, ashy, baccate, blanched, clabbered, clammy, clayey, clotted, coagulated, colorless, curdled, flabby, fleshy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous,… … Moby Thesaurus
