dough-boys

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• Dough

  ·noun Anything of the consistency of such paste. II. Dough ·noun Paste of bread; a soft mass of moi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dough

  (batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation). The dough the Israelites had prepared for bakin...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• yellow boys

  Guineas. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• yallow boys

  guineas. Exm. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• fisher-boys

  The apprentices in fishing vessels. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• passed boys

  Those who have gone through the round of instruction given in a training-ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• side-boys

  , or side-men. Those appointed to attend the gangways when boats come alongside, and offer the man...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Dough-baked

  ·adj Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understa...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dough-faced

  ·adj Easily molded; pliable. ...

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• Dough-kneaded

  ·adj Like dough; soft. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• dough-faces

  This term may be regarded as nearly or quite synonymous with another not very much unlike it in form...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dough-nut

  A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs, and sugar, moistened with milk, and boiled in lard.--Web...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pull-away-boys

  A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...

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