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Doughed vs Dougher - What's the difference?

doughed | dougher |

As a verb doughed

is (dough).

As a noun dougher is

a baker.

doughed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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

    *

    dougher

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A baker.
  • *1871 , Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal :
    • Among the ordinances of the Bakers of Exeter, is a provision that all 'dowers'' (' doughers or bakers) of the city and suburbs should grind at the city mills, and nowhere else; [...]
  • One who makes or is concerned with money.
  • *1922 , The Elevator Constructor:
    • He must not be a dougher'. By this ' dougher we mean the fellow that just thinks enough of this dough or money that by getting this same dough he is not thinking of the dough alone, [...]