Crossword clues for doughboy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"U.S. soldier," 1864, American English, 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 a sort of biscuit of that name (1680s), but there are various other conjectures.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) An American infantryman, especially one from World War I. 2 A kind of flour dumpling.
WordNet
n. an American infantryman in World War I
a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread; "the doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut"
Wikipedia
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 Mexican-American War of 1846-48. A popular mass-produced sculpture of the 1920s, the Spirit of the American Doughboy, shows a U.S. soldier in World War I uniform.
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 – but was gradually replaced during World War II by " G.I.".
Doughboy is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Doughboy, Doughboys, dough boy, etc. may refer to:
- Doughboy, a former nickname for American soldiers
- Pillsbury Doughboy, a character in advertisements for the Pillsbury Company
Usage examples of "doughboy".
He always started with Doughboy, who was huge and soft and mushroom white and lived with the black man they called Shiner in a second floor apartment.
Holland, points of lights flickered deep inside, and Doughboy exclaimed in delight as the microcomputer corrected his aim.
Hard to believe this beautiful child of nine was mentally retarded, like Doughboy, permanently consigned to four.
Things could get very heavy around here this summer if Doughboy gets a railroad job.
We have a witness who positively identifies Doughboy leaving the scene at the right time.
They found Doughboy all alone in a field, playing with a manhole cover.
Jennifer and Sari, she watched Darby, Doughboy, and Dreamboat, first-year entry.
Ardent, Trident, Darby, Doughboy, Dreamboat, Rassle, and Ribot quickly picked up the gauntlet.
Trudy, Tinsel, and Trinity were out, along with Darby, Doughboy, Dreamboat, Dana, Delight, Diddy, Ribot, Rassle, and Ruthie.
In those ships where flour was carried, in lieu of biscuit, as sometimes happened in cases of emergency, the men received a ration of doughboy, a sort of dumpling of wetted flour boiled with pork fat.
Gaumont in the lead like the ghost of the Pillsbury Doughboy -- she suddenly and absurdly remembered Paul mentioning the comparison to her.
The Germans had thousands and they terrorized the farmboy turned doughboy who returned home with tales of its awesome power.
The man on the right had a build like the Pillsbury doughboy and wore a red plaid Elmer Fudd cap.
His name was Wilf, he looked exactly like the Pillsbury Doughboy in weird rubber overalls and hip boots, and he wandered up from the cellar the first morning we were there, totally and permanently hungover.
Nobody else wanted to take the beat unless it was to uncover some vast new conspiracy to turn us all into the Pillsbury Doughboy or something like that.