Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Northerner who sided with the South in the US Civil War, especially a member of Congress who supported slavery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who is pliable and, as it were, made of dough; a flabby character; specifically, in United States history, in the period of sectional controversy regarding slavery, a Northern politician disposed to show undue compliance with the wishes of the South.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Political cant, U. S. A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative a person, especially a
politician , who is pliable, moldable like dough.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Abolitionists described as a "doughface" -- a Northern man with Southern principles.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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Foster was, by inclination, what was then called a doughface Democrat.
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Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" a Northerner with Southern sympathies who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
AS SEEN ON TV: FRANKLIN PIERCE Toby O'B 2010
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Franklin Pierce was born in New Hampshire in 1804 57 years before the start of our Civil War behind his back they called him "doughface"
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Franklin Pierce was born in New Hampshire in 1804 57 years before the start of our Civil War behind his back they called him "doughface"
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WALLNER: A "doughface" is a term that refers to Northerners who had Southern sympathies, Northern politicians with Southern sympathies.
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It is a notable fact that in the eight years following 1840, of the four presidential candidates put in nomination by the two parties, three were slaveholders, the fourth being a Northern "doughface," and both of the two who were elected held slaves.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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Yet for most of them I could not feel any thing of that intense scorn with which John Randolph of Roanoke more than thirty years ago branded the Northern 'doughface' in Congress, when pointing his skinny finger at his sneaking victim, he exclaimed: 'Mr. Speaker, I envy neither the head nor the heart of the Northern man who rises here to defend slavery on principle.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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"Dead Presidents," because they were named after the likes of James "doughface" Buchanan and
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Morgan Stanley was said this week to have misled its investors about mortgage deals known around the firm as "Dead Presidents," because they were named after the likes of James "doughface" Buchanan and Andrew Jackson.
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