Cough vs Dough - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cough and dough

is that cough is to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion while dough is to make into dough.

As nouns the difference between cough and dough

is that cough is a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary while dough is a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

cough

English

Verb

(en verb)

To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

* cougher * cough up

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough .

A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough .

He was – cough – indisposed.

Hyponyms

* barking cough * churchyard cough * congested cough * dry cough * hacking cough * loose cough * non-productive cough * productive cough * smoker's cough * wet cough

Derived terms

* cough mixture * cough syrup * whooping cough

dough

English

Alternative forms

* (dialectal)

Noun

(en-noun)

A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

Pizza dough is very stretchy.

(slang) Money.

His mortgage payments left him short on dough .

Derived terms

* doughboy * doughnut * doughy * rolling in dough

Verb

(en verb)

To make into dough.

The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.