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Definitions of doughboy in various dictionaries:
noun - an American infantryman in World War I
noun - a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread
A piece of bread dough that is rolled thin and fried in deep fat.
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Slang term for an American infantryman of WWI |
Like Pillsbury's Poppin' Fresh, an American soldier during WWI was called this |
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a boiled or deep-fried dumpling. |
A piece of bread dough that is rolled thin and fried in deep fat. |
An American infantryman in World War I. |
A boiled or deep-fried dumpling. |
A United States infantryman, especially one in the First World War. |
a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread |
an American infantryman in World War I |
Doughboy description |
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Doughboy was an informal term for a member of the United States Army or Marine Corps, especially used to refer to members of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, but initially used in the MexicanAmerican War of 18461848. A popular mass-produced sculpture of the 1920s designed by E. M. Viquesney the Spirit of the American Doughboy shows a U.S. soldier in World War I uniform. * The American usage was adopted in the UK by c.1917.The term was still in use as of the early 1940s for instance in the 1942 song "Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland," recorded by Dennis Day, Kenny Baker and Kay Kyser, among others; as well as the 1942 musical film Johnny Doughboy and as a character "Johnny Doughboy" in Military Comics. It was gradually replaced during World War II by "G.I." |