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Dough vs Manhood - What's the difference?

dough | manhood |

As nouns the difference between dough and manhood

is that 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 while manhood is the state of being man as a human being.

As a verb dough

is to make into dough.

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

    *

    manhood

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being man as a human being.
  • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood .
  • State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  • A strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood .
  • The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.
  • The male genitalia.
  • She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood .
  • Men, considered as a group.
  • Synonyms

    * (human being) mankind, humanity