Definitions for doughboy

doughboy dough·boy

Spelling: [doh-boi]
IPA: /ˈdoʊˌbɔɪ/

Doughboy is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in doughboy (bdghoouy).

Definitions for doughboy

noun

  1. Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
  2. a rounded mass of dough, boiled or steamed as a dumpling or deep-fried and served as a hot bread.

Origin of doughboy

1675-85; dough + boy; sense “infantryman,” from mid-1860s, is obscurely derived; two plausible, but unsubstantiated claims: doughboy orig. re

Examples for doughboy

However, he was compelled to leg it at the point of an American bayonet in the hands of an American doughboy.

Many of them were singing the national anthem of the doughboy, Hail!

The doughboy was afraid it was going to be some more nurses and doctors.

I was in a base hospital one day when a doughboy came in all gory about the head.

"Yes, sir, we certainly did see some aeroplanes," said a doughboy.

The amazing part of the "show," however, was the American doughboy.

But if a doughboy could not or would not pay, no questions were asked.

I'd rather be a "doughboy" though—anything but an artilleryman, for I hate shells and solid shot.

This story was from the lips of a doughboy whose home was in Philadelphia.

Jimmie strolled in, and there was a doughboy with whom he had had some chat on the transport.

Word Value for doughboy
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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