say it: DOH-boy
doughboy is a noun meaning "an American infantryman in World War I". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an American infantryman in World War I
a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread
“the doughboy was a predecessor of the doughnut”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for doughboy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.