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noun
1.
Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
2.
a rounded mass of dough, boiled or steamed as a dumpling or deep-fried and served as a hot bread.
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Doughboy
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | doughboy |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See fried dough |
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Word Origin & History
doughboy
"U.S. soldier," 1865, said to have been in oral use from 1854, or from the Mexican-American War (1847), it is perhaps from resemblance of big buttons on old uniforms to biscuits of that name, but there are various other conjectures.
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