doughboyn.

1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. 4 These men..had each of them three or four Cakes of Bread, (called by the English Dough-boy's) for their provision of Victuals.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 110 This Oyl served instead of Butter to eat with Dough-boys or Dumplin's.

1761 Monthly Rev. Mar. 147 As eggs are allowed but sometimes and sparingly, we may have a more innocent pudding perhaps without them, by making them of flower and water only, as Sailors make Doughboys.

1848 Spectator 16 Dec. 1205/1 He would limit the proportion of egg to one in a doughboy containing about a pound of flour.

1887 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 13/2 Each man had also a dough-boy made with ¼ lb. of flour, and boiled in the soup.

1958 W. E. Harney Content to Lie 30 His idea of solid food was to make dough boys each Saturday.

1982 N.Y. Times 13 June x. 16/6 A great opportunity to stuff yourself with tempura, fried doughboys, freshly squeezed lemonade and ice-cold watermelon.

2007 Scots Mag. Mar. 318/2 I raised a second pot lid and, spoon in hand, it seemed all too inviting to taste the contents, especially as the meat had a topping of doughboys.

1835 Army & Navy Chron. 30 July 247/3 Dough-boy's Ghost of Indian Warfare.

1835 Army & Navy Chron. 27 Aug. 277/2 The emblematic bugle horn of the Dough Boys is stamped on the flanks of each book, so that by day or by night the most blind may find which is the Military Tactics and which is the Infantry.

1847 N. J. T. Dana Let. 1 Jan. in Monterrey is Ours! (1990) x. 66 We ‘doughboys’ had to wait for the artillery to get their carriages over.

1887 E. Custer Tenting on Plains xvi. 516 A ‘doughboy’ is a small, round doughnut... Early in the Civil War the term was applied to the large globular brass buttons of the infantry uniform, from which it passed..to the infantrymen themselves.

1904 N.Y. Times 13 June 6 A disgusting practice which reduced a bold cavalier to the level of a ‘doughboy’ at once.

1918 ‘I. Hay’ Last Million ix. 134 The true exile in this war is the American born Doughboy.

1920 E. W. Bok Americanization of Edward Bok (1921) 410 He found himself in one of the numerous little towns where our doughboys were billeted.

1940 O. L. Spaulding in Dict. Amer. Hist. II. 163/1 The word ‘dough-boy’..can be traced with certainty as far back as 1854... The contemporary explanation then was, that the infantrymen wore white belts, and had to clean them with ‘dough’ made of pipe clay.

1966 A. Loos Girl like I ix. 164 During World War I, she dressed as a doughboy in olive drab.

2002 Topic Summer 11/1 I dreaded boring my friends as I'd been bored by old doughboys bragging about their experiences in World War I.

1856 in Contrib. Hist. Soc. Montana (1940) X. 74 The Carpenters at Work getting the Doughboy tools ready.

1856 in Contrib. Hist. Soc. Montana (1940) X. 75 The men mixed their mud in preparation for making doughboys.

1856 in Contrib. Hist. Soc. Montana (1940) X. 82 The Carpenters made..three doughboy moulds.

1999 R. G. Robertson Competitive Struggle i. 13 Because adobe was fire-resistant and less apt to rot, in the 1840s and 1850s a few wooden posts..were rebuilt from doughboy bricks.