doughboy

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

An American infantryman, especially one from World War I.

The "dough boys" were loaded into army wagons drawn by mules, and with the cavalry at the flanks the relief column started.

The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

2

A kind of flour dumpling.

3

Frybread.

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