| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| doughboy |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dough·boy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d  boi |
| NOUN: | 1. A piece of bread dough that is rolled thin and fried in deep fat. 2. An American infantryman in World War I. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Sense 2, perhaps from the large buttons on American uniforms of the 1860s, said to resemble doughboys (sense 1).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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