Dough is a mass of flour-based mixture ready for shaping and baking, usually containing water and sometimes yeast or salt. As a noun, it denotes the unbaked substance used for pastries and bread, and it can also metaphorically refer to money in informal contexts. In phonetics, the word is a single-syllable, long-diphthong vowel that blends with a voiced alveolar or velar stop in certain phonetic environments.
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