What is the term doughboy mean?

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(dō′boi′)

1. A piece of bread dough that is rolled thin and fried in deep fat.

2. An American infantryman in World War I.

[Sense 2, perhaps from the large buttons on American uniforms of the 1860s, said to resemble doughboys (sense 1).]

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(ˈdəʊˌbɔɪ)

1. (Military) informal US an infantryman, esp in World War I

2. (Cookery) dough that is boiled or steamed as a dumpling

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(ˈdoʊˌbɔɪ)

Informal. an American infantryman, esp. in World War I.

[1855–60, Amer.; of obscure orig.]

- The small round doughnuts served to sailors in the 19th century were called doughboys—and they resembled the round buttons on the sailors' uniforms—so the sailors came to be known as this.

See also related terms for uniform.

The name dates back to at least 1854, but in the U.S., it generally referred to an enlisted infantryman participating in World War I.

Noun	1.	doughboy - an American infantryman in World War I
	2.	doughboy - a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread; "the doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut" friedcake - small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat

[ˈdəʊbɔɪ] N (US) → soldado m de infantería (Hist) soldado de la Primera Guerra Mundial

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In 2001, Post 43 revisited one of its earliest projects, launching a community effort to restore the Spirit of the American Doughboy statue.

The Allied commanders wanted the American Doughboys to fill the manpower gaps that the Germans had ripped in the Allied armies and therefore they were determined to dictate what kind of soldiers and equipment would be transported in their countries' ships.

It's worth noting, though, That the recipe for Doughboy was pretty much a lucky guess.

For reasons that remain obscure, American soldiers who fought in France during the First World War were called "doughboys." America entered the war in April 1917, but Arthur Guy Empey didn't wait.

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Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.

a rounded mass of dough, boiled or steamed as a dumpling or deep-fried and served as a hot bread.

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1675–85; dough + boy; sense “infantryman,” from mid-1860s, is obscurely derived; two plausible, but unsubstantiated claims: doughboy originally referred to the globular brass buttons on infantry uniforms, likened to the pastry; dough referred to a clay used to clean the white uniform belts

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He came on the little stage, first as a swaggering general, then as an admiral, last as a real doughboy of the United States Army.
David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney
Many of them were singing the national anthem of the doughboy, Hail!
Average Americans|Theodore Roosevelt
He had gone a few yards when a doughboy jumped up out of a listening post and began to signal to him.
Pieces of Hate|Heywood Broun
Six weeks ago I couldn't tell a doughboy officer from a cavalryman by the stripe down his legs.

Frequently I have seen the doughboy in Paris as well as in the other cities and towns and in our military camps in France.
With the Doughboy in France|Edward Hungerford

US informal an infantryman, esp in World War I

dough that is boiled or steamed as a dumpling

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