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Flour and water's way of becoming bread, or you becoming rich.
means A soft, pliable mixture of flour and liquid used for baking, or informal slang for money.
from From Old English 'dag,' tracing back to a very old Germanic root meaning 'to knead' or 'to form by hand,' shared with relatives like the German 'Teig.' The sense of 'money' is much newer — American slang from the 19th century, likely riffing on the idea that dough, like cash, is a basic necessity you knead (and need) to make something rise.
- slang timeline
- meant money since the 1850s in America
- gluten science
- kneading builds elastic protein strands, not magic
- word cousin
- lady once meant loaf-kneader in Old English
- not dow
- rhymes with go, not with cow