Doughy

Definition: Doughy

Doughy

Adjective

1. Having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess".

Date "doughy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Term applied to some very heavily coloured wines containing too much dry extract. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Doughy

Synonym: soggy (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Softness	Doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony.'
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Doughy

English words defined with "doughy": Doughiness ♦ Malaxator ♦ soggy. (references)

"Doughy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doughy" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "doughy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si brumë (mushy, pasty), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Bulgarian		тестен, недопечен (half-baked, half-done, rare, raw, samel, slack-baked, sodden, underdone), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, faint, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly). (various references)

Czech		tìstový (pasty). (various references)

Danish		tung (burdensome, heavy, onerous), kraftig (pasty, robust). (various references)

Dutch		plakkerig zoet (pasty). (various references)

Finnish		voimakas (acute, forcible, intense, intensive, mighty, powerful, strong, substantial, vigorous), tukeva (firm, heavy, stable, steady, sturdy, substantial), raskas (heavy, ponderous, weighty), maalaismainen (rustic). (various references)

French		pateux, mal cuit. (various references)

German		teigig (sallow). (various references)

Greek		παχύς (fat, pasty), ζυμαρώδησ. (various references)

Hebrew		עס� י, בציק (pasty), בצקי (edematous, pasty). (various references)

Hungarian		tésztaszerű (pasty), tésztás (pasty), fakó (colorless, colourless, dim, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, Matt, muddy, pale, pallid, paly, rusty, sallow, washed-out, whitey). (various references)

Italian		pastoso (mellow, mushy). (various references)

Manx		treih (abject, deplorable, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), teaystagh (ill-baked, pasty, under-cooked, under-cooked as bread). (various references)

Pig Latin		oughyday

Portuguese		pastoso (pasty). (various references)

Romanian		palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, pallid, paly, sickly, wan, washed out, white), pãstos (pasty), moale (apathetic, apathetical, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), ca aluat. (various references)

Russian		рыхлый (bulk, crumbly, friable, light, mealy), тестообразный (pasty, pasty faced), одутловатый (pasty, pasty faced, puffy), нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwell, unwholesome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		testast (pasty, stodgy), gnjecav (gooey, soggy). (various references)

Spanish		pastoso (pasty, plummy). (various references)

Swedish		degig (pasty, sodden), klumpig (awkward, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Thai		นิ่มและเหนียวหนื�"คล้ายกับแป้งผสมสำหรับอบขนมปัง. (various references)

Turkish		yufka gibi, solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan), pelte gibi (jelly-like), hamur gibi (limp, pasty, pulpy, sodden, soggy), güçsüz (crank, feeble, flabby, helpless, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, sapless, shaky, sinewless, strengthless, weak). (various references)

Ukrainian		тістоподібний (pasty), тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, pointless, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), одутлий (puffy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Doughy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daugh, Deguchi, Dlugy, doagh, dogh, Dongkhe, doogh, douf, doughie, dought, dougty, douh, doush, douth, dowi, Duagh, duffy, Loughry, ooghy, toughy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "doughy" (pronounced dō"ē)
2	-ō" ē	blowy, Joey, showy, snowy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-h-o-u-y"
	-1 letter: dough.
	-2 letters: dogy, yodh, yogh.
	-3 letters: dog, dug, duh, duo, god, goy, guy, hod, hog, hoy, hug, oud, udo, ugh, yod, you.
	-4 letters: do, go, ho, od, oh, oy, uh, yo.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-h-o-u-y"
	+1 letter: doughty.
	+2 letters: doughboy, droughty, roughdry.
	+3 letters: doughboys, doughtily, greyhound.
	+4 letters: greyhounds, honeyguide.
	+5 letters: honeyguides, hydrogenous, roughdrying.
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