🇬🇧🇪🇸 dough - masa : English Lesson

Meaning of "dough" ("masa"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Dough is a soft, squishy mixture made from flour and water, usually with things like yeast, salt, sugar, or butter added. Bakers squeeze, stretch, and roll the dough to make bread, pizza, cookies, and many other baked treats. Before it goes into the oven, it’s just dough. After it bakes and gets firm and golden, it turns into yummy bread or other goodies you can eat.

My bread dough didn’t rise, so instead of a fluffy loaf, I invented the world’s first bread brick.

Mom said, "Don’t eat the cookie dough," so I just tasted it 47 very tiny times.

I pretended the dough was slime, and my mom pretended not to see her kitchen turning into a science lab.

The dough puffed up so much it looked like it was trying to escape the bowl and start a new life.

Yeast in bread dough is alive and makes tiny bubbles of gas, which is basically millions of microscopic burps puffing up your loaf.

Anna kneaded warm dough on the table, laughing as flour dusted her sleeves. The dough stuck to her fingers; she pulled and folded the dough, shaping loaves. A small dog nosed the dough and barked; Anna waved it away, then tucked the soft dough into the oven. Later, she sighed, tasting the first warm slice.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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