Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A U.S. Army foot soldier, especially in World War II.
Wiktionary
- n. A generic name for a foot soldier, especially during World War II.
Etymologies
- dog + face (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then on his first day of school, when the teacher calls on him, “May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?””
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“There are made-to-order sacks made of changing types of dogface skin, encompassing crocodile skin, which is the hugely useful.”
“He assured his wife that his comrades felt the same: "Every dogface over here has a sweetheart, wife, mother, or a child that he is fighting for.”
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“Their opinion was that it was a far better gig than be a dogface, as they had been.”
“They are not going to send a dogface on a mission to extract this Ivan … ?”
““Brother Jonah said, ‘They are not going to send a dogface on a mission to extract this Ivan …’””
“There's plenty of tear-jerking classic holiday film fare to tune to to turn on the water works and give your sad puppy dogface a stimulating burn.”
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“It seems I had got a two day pass when I went over the fence, this was usually enough for the average dogface.”
“I have found that "mambo dogface to the banana patch" is a regular search phrase that leads to my blog.”
“Pecina and the other officers keep shouting at the hapless dogface, without much effect.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dogface’.
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About Face
face, about face, about-face, facet, faced, face card, face value, face facts, facetious, Janus-faced, Boniface, volte-face and 70 more...
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Soldiers and Sailors
Types and nicknames.
point man, legionary, man-at-arms, trooper, janissary, marine, lobsterback, redcoat, blackcoat, guardsman, billman, foot soldier and 95 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Nabokovia
slime, mnemoptical, reverbed, forefeel, fair copy, scriggle, gaufrette, inamorata, wanter, noctambule, incarnadine, intercadence and 59 more...
Tweets
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amacleod03 A U.S. Army foot soldier, especially in World War II.
The term gained a high profile when it was used in the Hollywood film, To Hell and Back, based on the best-selling autobiography of Audie Murphy, and starring the same. The film included a song, “The Dogface Soldier.�? Jul 10, 2009
mollusque Citation at dackel. Jun 13, 2009