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doughman

doughman noun: a man employed to make dough.

Noun

doughman (plural doughmen)

  1. A man employed to make dough.

Proper noun capitalized: Doughman

Doughman (plural Doughmans)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A surname from TUCHMANN, TOUGHMAN and/or DUCHMAN, at least in the United States.

Forms of doughman

Noun
pluraldoughmen
Proper noun
pluralDoughmans

Origin of doughman

From dough + -man.

Possibly an altered spelling of Dowman or an occupational surname for a baker, from dough + -man.

Questions about doughman

What does doughman mean?
Doughman means a man employed to make dough.
What part of speech is doughman?
Doughman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of doughman?
The plural of doughman is doughmen.

Words near doughman in the dictionary

  1. doughless
  2. doughlike
  3. doughmaker
  4. doughmakers
  5. doughmaking
  6. doughman
  7. Doughmans
  8. doughmen
  9. doughnut
  10. doughnut bumper
  11. doughnut bumpers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doughman (page history and authors); Doughman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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