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doughboy

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dough·boy  (dboi)
n.
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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Noun1.doughboydoughboy - an American infantryman in World War I
foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman, marcher - fights on foot with small arms
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
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