Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An infantry soldier.
- noun Nautical, a boiled dumpling of raised dough.
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Examples
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Anthony Dean Griffey manages creepy where you least expect it which is pretty magnificent given his dough-boy looks.
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Anthony Dean Griffey manages creepy where you least expect it which is pretty magnificent given his dough-boy looks.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Bonham, tight and neat, besides Scipio's dough-boy figure, the broad expanse of his light brown jacket a mess of creases from the flight.
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Most prominent were a Pillsbury Pie Crusts box (with the little dough-boy) and Boca Burgers.
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A "Kevlar" vest-and-helmet matching set weighs approximately 40 pounds and makes you look like the Pillsbury dough-boy.
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He's not a faux-maverick, fleshy dough-boy, like John McCain.
Hullabaloo 2006
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His dinner, a morsel of salt beef and a dough-boy, or dumpling made of boiled maize meal, had been brought to him soon after his confinement; but at the time he felt much too sick to eat anything.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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Somewhere in France a tall negro dough-boy was trying to pull to his feet a mule who persisted obstinately in sitting down.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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A mud-spattered dough-boy slouched into the "Y" hut where an entertainment was in progress and slumped into a front seat.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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Fortunately you didn't have to say that many -- not on the pay of a dough-boy, put in a plumber from up-state in New York.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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