The doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He is not smiling — a solemn, miniature dough­boy four years before the term doughboy had passed into the common vocabulary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

It was not good commissary either, for Brownie, the "greasy cook," had gone on leave to visit a "doughboy" cousin of the Sixth Corps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Man Savarin and Other Stories] Reference

"doughboy" or "web-foot" as he is called by the men of the other branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emma Gees] Reference

And how the prisoners came to depend on the doughboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Every doughboy on the island rushed to the Dvina's edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

This story was from the lips of a doughboy whose home was in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man] Reference

"I suppose you get home once in a while?" said the doughboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

Of course the doughboy mastered the art of navigating in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Yet the doughboy only swore softly and shined his rifle barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

No wonder the doughboy set out to help himself in these things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

This includes much but not all of the doughboy engineering also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

We must say candidly that the doughboy came to look upon American.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

The doughboy early learned to respect their rude homes and customs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

The doughboy always respected the honest peasant's religious customs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Tommy Atkins and a doughboy sat in a poker game together somewhere in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

It was no uncommon thing for a doughboy to intercept messages from Egypt or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Frank of one burly doughboy, who was contentedly munching a huge piece of cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

He was asked if he expected more for the doughboy than was given to the Tommie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

It showed the utter unselfishness of the American doughboy, gob, and leatherneck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of The American Legion] Reference

"O we don't stay out that long." comes the response from the pasty white doughboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Re-enactments] Reference

They were bestowed by French officers who were close to the doughboy in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Well, Fat is a sergeant-chauffeur, Q.M.C. Gabby is a doughboy in an infantry regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference

American doughboy at the other end say he would make the connection or take the message.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Somehow the doughboy felt that the very limited and much complained about service of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

What doughboy will forget the first sight he caught of an American "Y" girl in North Russia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

In this volume is a picture of a doughboy-barishna wedding party, Joe Chinzi and Elena Farizy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

The writers of this history of the expedition think the doughboy had much to justify his feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Except for the doughboy guard it might have been difficult to tell them from a free working party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Slavic village school teacher to say goodbye to her doughboy friend who was soon to sail for home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Some things the doughboy and officer from America will never have grace enough in his forgiving heart to ever forgive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Or on the open road in the night: solemn again the mood of the doughboy as he recollects some of those lonely night rides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

When the doughboy returned to his company at the front he had a few great tales to tell of the eats he had found at some places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Many a doughboy at the front sighed wearily and shook his head doubtfully over the mess of sob-stuff that came uncensored from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

Lest we forget and go off again on some such strange campaign let us chronicle the story of the grief that came to the S.O. L. doughboy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

News, which shows the doughboy sitting in a Toulgas trench -- or a Kodish, or Shred Makrenga, or Pinega, or Chekuevo, or Railroad trench.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference