To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.
Dough"-baked` (?), a. Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. [Colloq.] Halliwell.
Dough"bird` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.
Dough"face` (?), n. A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]
Dough"-faced` (?), a. Easily molded; pliable.
Dough"face`ism (?), n. The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.
Dough"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being doughy.
Dough"-knead`ed (?), a. Like dough; soft.
He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing.
Milton.
Dough"nut (?), n. A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.
Dough"ti*ly (?), adv. In a doughty manner.
Dough"ti*ness, n. The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.
Dough"tren (?), n. pl. [See Daughter.] Daughters. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dough"ty (dou"t), a. [Compar. Doughtier (-t*r); superl. Doughtiest.] [OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS, dyhtig; akin to G. tüchtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of use, be strong, akin to D. deugen, OHG. tugan, G. taugen, Icel. & Sw. duga, Dan. due, Goth. dugan, but of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. duh to milk, give milk, draw out, or Gr. ty`chh fortune. √68.] Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain.
Chaucer.
Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation.
Motley.
Now seldom used, except in irony or burlesque.
Dough"y (d"), a. Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Dou*loc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. doy^los slave + kratei^n to rule.] A government by slaves. [Written also dulocracy.] Hare.
Doum" palm` (dm" päm`). See Doom palm.