dough
→
money
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Catalan | |
| Lexeme | pasta | |
| Meaning 1 | dough | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (colloquial) money | |
| Reference | GDLC 2022 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | dough | |
| Meaning 1 | dough | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (slang, dated) money | His mortgage payments left him short on dough ( O. Henry, “From the Cabby's Seat”) |
| Reference | English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | Second meaning dates to the mid 19th century | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | pasta | |
| Meaning 1 | (colloquial) dough | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | money | No está tan engreído como de costumbre; parece bien jodido. «No lo entiendo, Spud. Pensé que me quedaba mucha pasta para las vacaciones; tenía previsto llevarme a mi hija por ahí. […]» (2006, Irvine Welsh, Federico Corriente Basús transl., Porno) |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swedish | |
| Lexeme | deg | |
| Meaning 1 | dough | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (slang) money | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||