Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) large quantities of money.

2000

Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 dough stacks Definition: large quantities of money Example: ya’ll busters cant see my dough stacks.

(UK Und.) to manufacture counterfeit money.

1941

V. Davis Phenomena in Crime 252: Cooking dough. Actually making counterfeit.

(orig. Aus.) to lose one’s money, to spend up.

1907		Sun. Times (Perth) 27 Jan. 4/8: We’d see the Doc. encouraging the mug / To do his dough on nags that aren’t here.
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Aug. Red Page/1: The ’Urdles now, en’ Steeple’s all the go / Ter give the blokes a charnce ter do their dough, / Then fetch a skite their forchin jist got pipped! / It ain’t too dusty livenin’ aroun’ / These early morns wif Jack Frost on the groun’, / Uz if the moonlight froze w’ere it wuz tipped.
1974		D. Ireland Burn 52: Don’t bet on it, son. You might do your dough.
1982		N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 62: When a chosen horse ‘runs like a hairy goat’ both sexes ‘do their dough’.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 193: done your dough lost one’s money, as in i done me dough at the track.
2002		R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 237: We thought we’d done our dough [...] You were taking an awful battering.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 157: He did his dough. She ran second.

well off, prospering, rich.

1910		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Money In It’ Sporting Times 5 Feb. 1/3: And he in his turn felt sure, to use his own expression terse, / ‘She is doughy!’.
1935		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 650: I was in the dough then.
1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 38: I’ll make it up to you after to-night. I’ll be in the dough again.
1947		S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 296: In a couple of years you’ll be in the dough again.
1956		Jess Stearn Sisters of the Night 10: When she learns to make with the fancy talk [...] she’ll be in the dough.

(US) to make money.

2014

C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014.

stupid, dull; thus n. doughbake, a fool.

1592		J. Lilly Midas II ii: A reason dow-baked .
1614		T. Overbury A Wife, with many witty Characters C2: A Very Woman is a dow-bakt man, or Shee ment well towards him, but fell the two bowes short, strength and understanding.
1675		Wycherley Country-Wife IV iv: These dow-baked, senseless, indocile animals, women, too hard for us, their politic lords and rulers.
1874		Fife Herald 5 Nov. 4/2: That little, soft, putty-head doughbake [...] she ain’t good enough for a Thornton.
1878		Western Gaz. 27 Dec. 3/5: O! George, thou dough-baked fellow!

(Aus.) a cook; thus dough-banging, cooking.

1891		Truth (Sydney) 3 May 7/4: Poor Joe the doughbanger has still the tea and a heavy day before him [AND].
1897		M. Costello Harold Effermere 73: Dash it all, the cook has had a pretty stiff ‘dog watch.’ You better go out and square a circle round them ‘hornies,’ and let the dough banger come in.
1904		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 39/ 1: The time was come that we should elect our cook [...] Nine doughbangers fer the one job.
1911		E.S. Sorenson Bush Cooks in Life in the Aus. Backblocks 88: The notion was once prevalent that all wayback dough-bangers were pugilistic champions, and dozens [...] traded on this reputation, going smilingly through camp and shed on the game of bluff, challenging any man to fight who found fault with the tucker. [...] Dough-banging does not develop the muscles in the manner that bush-whackers used to imagine.
1929		Aussie (Sydney) Oct. 24/1: In other days when shearers elected their own cooks at nearly all big sheds, the doughbangers stood for selection like a candidate for Parliament [AND].
1943		S.W. Keough Around Army 15: He makes inquiries and finds that all the dough-bangers have been promoted to lance jacks, and that they’re sitting around awaiting the arrival of some new privates to order to make the bread [AND].
1953		H.M. Eastman Memoirs of Sheepman 45: You with the doughbanger’s cap, what about it? [...] Are you a cook? [AND].
1963		North Aus. Monthly Nov. 13/1: Road cooks [...] were running under an alias when they classed themselves as dough-bangers [AND].

a very fat person, a large stomach; used as a nickname; thus adj. doughbellied, obese.

1806		Morn. Chron. (London) 15 Aug. 3/4: Yesterday Martin Lawler, better known by the name of Doughbelly, was charged [etc.].
1843		Era 4 June 3/4: An editor in Indiana [...] calls his village contemporary ‘Doughbelly’.
1863		Holmes Co. Farmer (Millersburg, OH) 8 Oct. 2/3: Old Doughbelly, proprietor of the Empire House.
1887		Frankfort Roundabout (KY) 23 July 7/1: The Frankforts played an exhibition game [...] ‘Doughbelly’ officiated as ‘mascotte’ for the home team.
1898		Wichita Dly Eagle (KS) 29 May10/7: A politician at Stillwater is known by the delicate nick-name of Dough-belly.
1916		Alliance Herald (NE) 14 Dec. 22/2: Anyone who can and won’t pay an honest debt is a far worse person than a horse thief or a dough-bellied or gander-legged, pin-head gambler.
1942		(con. 1890s) in Calif. Folklore Quarterly I 220: Get away from me, you little doughbelly! [HDAS].
1993		I. Rankin Black Book (2000) 69: He was a bit worried about getting a ‘dough-ring’, as he termed the gut policemen specialised in.

the stomach.

1914

Truth (Melbourne) 31 Jan. 6/2: When it is all rubbed off your manly buzzum, and your prostrate dough-box, you can use one hand to grab the tart you admire.

see dough-roller

see separate entries.

(US campus) someone who acts foolishly or as if they have not been thinking.

1982

Eble Campus Sl. Fall 2: doughbrain – space-cadet, dumby.

1. (US) a malleable person, esp. a Northern politician who accepts slavery.

1820		New Brunswick Times 13 Apr. n.p.: He [i.e. John Randolph] said: ‘I knew these would give way. They were scared at their own dough faces. [...] We had them.’.
1839		Amer. Slavery As It Is 114/2: Truly, of all Yankee notions and free state products, there is nothing like a ‘dough face’ — the great north, em staple for the southern market — 'made to order,' in any quantity, and always on hand.
1840		Edgefield Advertiser (SC) 11 June 2/1: The editor of the Ohio paper abandoned the Whigs because they nominated the Abolitionists, and joined the Locofocos because they went for the doughfaces.
1848		Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) 18 Aug. 2/5: Southern patricians have lorded it over Northern Doughfaces (i.e. Democrats) until they have made them as [...] cringing as the degraded slave.
1855		Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 24 Feb. 3/2: The Lord deliver us from the doughface race — timid, [...] prevaricating, backing out, selling out crew.
1859		C. Mackay Life and Liberty in America 105: Among the pure Americanisms may be cited the following: [...] A doughface; a man easily moved to change his opinion; a person to be wrought upon and modeled to any particular shape, like a piece of dough.
1864		J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 207: There are in the North a lot of dough-faces.
1873		J. Mair Hbk of Phrases 103: Dough-faces, a nick-name given to the Northern abettors of negro slavery.
1888		Saline Co. Jrnl (KS) 19 Apr. 3/5: One hundred and fifty Democratic electoral votes were in the southern half of the Union, and the northern doughface fellows are the tail of that dog.
1890		Louisiana Democrat (Alexandra, LA) 27 Aug. 1/3: After this comes once more the old cry: ‘Stand back, doughfaces!’.
1900		Akron Dly Democrat (OH) 19 Mar. 1/3: Thus it was that Park and Sandford [...] Ceased their action of pursuing Doughfaces.
1914		Day Book (Chicago) 30 Jan. 12/1: As blind as was the blindness of those northern doughfaces who sides with southern slave-holders.
1920		Carlsbad Current (NM) 17 Dec. 7/1: Van Buren stood by his guns [...] going down in the Democratic convention under the displeasure of the southern slaveholders and the alarm of the northern doughfaces.

2. (US) a woman who wears an excess of cosmetics.

1971

T. Thackrey Thief 6: Miss dough-face, the counter girl, is commencing to get interested.

(US) an infantryman.

1947		(con. 1944) J.H. Burns Gallery (1948) 70: You know goddam well that the merchant marine lives better than you poor doughfeet below deck.
1989		Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 79: A dry change of socks [...] — and lots of ammo — were the real essentials in a doughfoot’s kit.

(US) an extremely fat person.

1862

R. Patrick Reluctant Rebel 42: You infernal old doughguts.

1. (US) a very silly or stupid person.

1832		New-England Mag. Nov. 397: There 's Billy Dough-head, harmless youth, / Who ne’er touched sword, or ever saw gun, / Fumbles his sconce, and finds, forsooth, / That he 's a huge destructive organ.
1838		S. Kettell Yankee Notions 124: Nonsense, Josh, you silly dough-head .
1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 24 Sept. n.p.: the whip wants to know If A B the dough-head has as yet entered into Hymen’s bands .
c.1850		F.M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) 46: I always thought the elder was ruther of a dough-head.
1854		M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 162: He inwardly accused them all of being ‘doughheads’.
1860		Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (3 edn) 128: Dough-head. A soft-pated fellow, a fool.
1869		‘Oliver Optic’ In School and Out 168: In the course of the drill he called me a dough-head.
1877		M.J. Holmes Mildred 136: ‘Fool! dough-head!’ thundered the Judge.
1883		Salt Lake Herald (UT) 9 Dec. 4/5: I’m sorry I’m such a doughhead.
1898		A. Fuller One of the Pilgrims 114: I ’m a dreadful dough-head about politics.
1908		Marion Dly Mirror (OH) 4 July 12/3: She called him a doughhead and a fool and a lot of other things.
1912		Eve. Bulletin (HI) 6 June 9/3: ‘Pop, where is the sun at 7 o’clock in the morning?’ ‘In the east, you doughhead’.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1975		Gazette (Montreal) 11 June 6/1: Pass the ball, you dough-head.
1987		‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 3: A dough-head in a Barracuda crunched his rear door.

2. (US tramp) a baker.

1926		N. Klein ‘Hobo Lingo’ in AS I:12 650: Dough-head—a baker.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.

see cakehole under cake n.¹

a biscuit or pastry.

1883		W.C. Russell Sailors’ Lang. xii: Dough jehovas are a Yankee pudding.
1885		Great Falls Trib. (MT) 12 Dec. 1/2: ‘What is the bill of fare?’ ‘Biled thripe and injuns [...] prairie soup and dough-gods’.
1899		Monthly So. Dakotan I 176: The hay boy flung himself on the canadensis carpet and ate his dinner of dough-god and bacon with hearty relish [DA].
1902		Yakima Herald 30 Sept. 10/3: Delicious lamb chops, french fried potatoes and camp biscuits dubbed ‘dough gods’ by our excellent cooks.
1916		Wash. Times (DC) 11 Oct. 7/1: Some of Butch’s dainties [...] included ‘dough gods,’ [and] Boston bullets.
1920		Seattle Star (WA) 12 June 8/6: I can make all sorts of bread, ma’am [...] even dough-gods.
1936		R.F. Adams Cowboy Lingo 147: ‘Sour-doughs’ were biscuit such as only a cow-camp cook could make; they were also known as ‘dough-gods,’ ‘sinkers,’ or ‘hot rocks’.

see separate entries.

1. to hit hard.

1972

D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 23: I’ll catch two or three balls behind Dreamer Tatum and at least once I’ll dough-pop him on his black ass.

2. to defeat completely.

1972

D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 37: We were All-America our senior year and dough-popped Arkansas thirty-seven to twenty-one.

see doughbelly

(US) a cook, often spec. a baker.

1849		Paul Pry 26 Mar. 3/3: Paul Advises [...] Mr. J. L—n, of Richmond, not to strut about the hill so much. All the girls know you are only a dough-puncher.
1905		Sporting Times 11 Feb. 3/5: A good lady [...] was engaged in cutting up a loaf of bread, when out popped the top joint of a man’s finger, nail and all, half cooked. Discouraged with her find, she sought out the German dough-puncher.
1914		G.D. Chase ‘Navy Sl.’ in DN IV: ii 150: dough puncher, n. Baker.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 7 Mar. 5/6: Alfred [...] had better look out for the dough puncher.
1920–23		in J.M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas (1963) I 331: The cook [...] ‘dough roller,’ ‘dinero,’ ‘coocy’ and ‘biscuit shooter’.
1925		J. Stevens ‘Logger Talk’ AS I:3 137/1: A camp cook is [...] ‘Gut-burglar,’ [...] ‘dough-roller,’ and ‘star chief.’.
1933		Buckner ‘Ranch Diction of the Texas Panhandle’ in AS VIII:1 27: dough-roller. Cook.
1942		Shields Dly News 4 Sept. 4/6: ‘Our own dough-puncher makes better sinkers than the ones you get here’.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 4: dough boxer [...] dough-head [...] dough roller A cook.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS 159/1: dough-roller A logging-camp cook.