Collocations for "dough"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "dough" in context.
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dough
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [pizza, bread, cake, cookie, pie] dough
- made our own [pizza] dough
- a dough for [apple, blackberry] pie
- [knead, massage, fold, shape, cut] the dough
- [roll, spread, even] out the dough
- roll the dough out on [flour, the surface]
- spread the dough on the [flour]
- cut the dough into [three] pieces
- [cool, refrigerate] the dough [before, for, in]
- shape the dough with [floured hands, wet hands, a mold]
- shape the dough into [rectangles, balls, circles, triangles]
- slang: I'm [short, low] on dough
- slang: can you [spot, lend] me some dough?
- slang: [cough up, shell out, hand over] the dough
- slang: blew the dough on [prostitutes, gambling, bad investments]
- slang: is up to his elbows in dough
'dough' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):