# doughboy

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #75,815

## Definitions
1. An American infantryman, especially one from World War I.
2. A kind of flour dumpling.
3. Frybread.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/doughboy