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ˈdough-boy
1. Naut. and Colonial. A boiled flour dumpling.
1685B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. II. iv. 4 These men..had each of them three or four Cakes of bread (called by the English Dough-boy's) for their provision and Victuals. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. v. 110 This Oil served instead of Butter, to eat with Dough-boys or Dumplins. 1880Blackw. Mag. Jan. 72 Quite a gourmet in the matter of dough-boys and duff. 1887Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 13/2 Each man had also a dough-boy made with 1/4 lb. of flour, and boiled in the soup.
2. U.S. slang.
†a. = adobe 1 (cf. dobe). Obs.
1856in Mont. Hist. Soc. Contrib. (1940) X. 74 The Carpenters at Work getting the Doughboy tools ready. Ibid. 75 The men mixed their mud in preparation for making doughboys. Ibid. 82 The Carpenters made..three doughboy moulds.
b. colloq. An infantryman in the U.S. Army. Also attrib.
There have been several conjectures as to the origin of this sense (e.g. quots. 1887 and 1940).
[1865Harper's Weekly 25 Nov. 741/2 The battered excursionists..were designated as ‘Bummers’, ‘Do-Boys’, ‘Raiders’, etc.] 1867in E. Custer Tenting on Plains (1887) xvi. 516 Wasn't I glad I was not a doughboy? 1887Ibid., A ‘doughboy’ is a small round doughnut... Early in the Civil War the term was applied to the large globular brass buttons on the infantry uniform, from which it passed..to the infantrymen themselves. 1898Scribner's Mag. Aug. 133 Horse dealers..led their ponies up and down before..dough-boy officers. 1904N.Y. Times 13 June 6 A disgusting practice which reduced a bold cavalier to the level of a ‘doughboy’ at once. 1918‘I. Hay’ Last Million ix. 134 The true exile in this war is the American born Doughboy. 1920E. W. Bok Autobiogr. (1921) xxxi. 293 The amazing part of the ‘show’..was the American doughboy. 1940O. L. Spaulding in Dict. Amer. Hist. II. 163/1 The word ‘dough-boy’..can be traced with certainty as far back as 1854... The contemporary explanation then was, that the infantrymen wore white belts, and had to clean them with ‘dough’ made of pipe clay. 1966A. Loos Girl like I ix. 164 During World War I, she dressed as a doughboy in olive drab. |
