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单词 doughboy
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
dough•boy  (dō′boi′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. [Informal.]an American infantryman, esp. in World War I.
  2. Fooda rounded mass of dough, boiled or steamed as a dumpling or deep-fried and served as a hot bread.
  • 1675–85; dough + boy; sense "infantryman,'' from mid-1860s, is obscurely derived; two plausible, but unsubstantiated claims:doughboyorigin, originally referred to the globular brass buttons on infantry uniforms, likened to the pastry; dough referred to a clay used to clean the white uniform belts

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
doughboy /ˈdəʊˌbɔɪ/ n
  1. US informal an infantryman, esp in World War I
  2. dough that is boiled or steamed as a dumpling
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