doughboy

dough boy |ˈdōˌboi ˈdoʊbɔɪ | ▶noun 1 a boiled or deep-fried dumpling. 2 informal a US infantryman, esp. one in World War I. [said to have been a term applied in the Civil War to the large globular brass buttons on the infantry uniform; also said to derive from the use of pipeclay ‘dough ’ to clean the white belts worn by infantrymen. ]

doughboy

dough |boy |ˈdəʊbɔɪ | ▶noun 1 a boiled or deep-fried dumpling. 2 US informal a United States infantryman, especially one in the First World War. [said to have been a term applied in the Civil War to the large globular brass buttons on the infantry uniform; also said to derive from the use of pipe clay ‘dough ’ to clean the white belts worn by infantrymen. ]

doughboy

d ó ugh b ò y 名詞 複 ～s C 1 ゆでだんご .2 ｟米 くだけて ｠第1次大戦の米国陸軍歩兵 .