a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
"The baker mixed water into the flour until it formed a dough that was stiff enough to knead and roll out flat."
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.
"The baker carefully shaped the warm dough into round loaves before placing them in the oven to bake."
In plain English: Dough is soft, pliable mixture of flour and water that you use to make bread or pastries before baking it.
"I need to save up enough dough for my new car before we go on vacation."
Usage: Dough refers specifically to the raw mixture of flour and liquid used for baking bread or pastries before it has been cooked. Do not confuse this uncooked substance with "dough" meaning money, which requires different context clues like financial transactions rather than cooking instructions.
To make into dough.
"She mixed flour and water together to knead it into a smooth ball of dough."
The word dough comes from the Middle English dow and earlier Old English dāg. It originally meant "kneaded mixture" before traveling into modern usage to describe bread or pastry batter.