Usage examples (37)

• The doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut
• He is not smiling — a solemn, miniature dough­boy four years before the term doughboy had passed into the common vocabulary.
• They were short of water and short of food, "having only one cake of bread a day," or perhaps half-a-pound of "doughboy," for their
• It was not good commissary either, for Brownie, the "greasy cook," had gone on leave to visit a "doughboy" cousin of the Sixth Corps.