doughboy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From dough + boy; its use to refer to an infantryman is unknown, but dates from 1847, during the Mexican–American War.

(See 1916 and 1917.) (H.) *Doughboys and Doughnuts. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
True stories of her experiences with the doughboys have appeared in The North American, and in The Outlook. — Short Stories of Various Types, Unknown
And as Hartley stiffens up and glares across the table at an imaginary line of doughboys I could guess that he succeeded. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford

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