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Dough vs Kneed - What's the difference?

dough | kneed |

As verbs the difference between dough and kneed

is that dough is to make into dough while kneed is (knee).

As a noun 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.

As an adjective kneed is

(in combination) having some specific type of knee or knees.

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.

    Derived terms

    *

    kneed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (in combination) Having some specific type of knee or knees.

    • Derived terms

    * knobbly-kneed * knock-kneed * weak-kneed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (knee)
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