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dough boy

dough boy is the alternative spelling of doughboy.

Meaning of doughboy

Noun

doughboy (plural doughboys)

  1. (US) An American infantryman, especially one from World War I.
    • The "dough boys" were loaded into army wagons drawn by mules, and with the cavalry at the flanks the relief column started.1901 July 19, “Horses in time of War”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 296
  2. A kind of flour dumpling.
  3. Frybread.

Forms of dough boy

pluraldough boys

Questions about dough boy

What is dough boy the alternative spelling of?
Dough boy is the alternative spelling of doughboy.

Words near dough boy in the dictionary

  1. Dougals
  2. Dougan
  3. Dougans
  4. Dougga
  5. dough
  6. dough boy
  7. dough boys
  8. dough gob
  9. dough goddy
  10. dough mixer
  11. dough mixers

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