doughˈboy noun

1. A doughball
2. An American infantryman (milit sl)

doughˈfaced adjective

Over-persuadable, specif of Northern politicians sympathetic towards the Southern cause before the American Civil War

doughˈ-kneaded adjective (Milton)

Soft

doughˈnut or (esp US) donut noun

1. A ring or ball of sweetened dough fried in fat
2. Any object shaped like a ring
3. An accelerating tube in the form of a toroid (nucleonics)
4. A toroidal assembly of enriched fissile material for increasing locally the neutron intensity in a reactor for experimental purposes, a tokamak (also toroid; nucleonics)
5. A pile of annular laminations in toroidal shape for magnetic testing or a loading coil in toroidal shape on transmission lines, permitting exact balance in addition to inductance (elec eng)

intransitive verb

To practise doughnutting

doughˈnutting noun

The surrounding of a speaker in parliament by other members to give an impression, esp to television viewers, of a packed house