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doughboy

noun

Etymology

From dough + boy; its use to refer to an infantryman is unknown, but dates from 1847, during the Mexican–American War.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as doughboy — “dough + boy”

Definitions

  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.

  2. A kind of flour dumpling.

  3. Frybread.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at doughboy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at doughboy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at doughboy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA