Doughier vs Dougher - What's the difference?
doughier | dougher |
(doughy)
having the characteristics of dough especially in appearance or consistency: as
# pale and flabby
# soft and heavy
A baker.
*1871 , Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal :
One who makes or is concerned with money.
*1922 , The Elevator Constructor:
As an adjective doughier
is (doughy).As a noun dougher is
a baker.doughier
English
Adjective
(head)doughy
English
Adjective
(er)dougher
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- 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; [...]
- 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, [...]