Dough/Doughboy

March 10th, 2009 by admin

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  1. Jason Gillard, Jr.:

    May 31st, 2009 at 9:36 am

    WOW. I am impressed. Not only by the play on words but also by the sheer intelegince shown in the answers. According to my grnadmother (she is 93 yo)the original meaning of the term “doughboys” refer to a small, boiled, suet dumpling, but it was also used by the enemy as a slang for american soldiers. Apparently the enemy were going to “eat them alive”. I guess she must have been but a girl when there were cannibals living in america

    Hope this helps

  2. Jenny:

    August 31st, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Here’s a claim to the origin of “bread” as slang for money:
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112255870

    Repeated by NPR, no less.

  3. Regina:

    March 17th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    I think “bread” as a name for money might be bible-based as in “earning your daily bread”.

  4. Russell:

    April 12th, 2012 at 3:58 am

    The origin of “Bread” as a name for Money comes from the English Cockney Rhyming Slang term, “Bread and Honey” meaning Money. The term dough could be derived as a further slang term from Bread. Alternatively is has been suggested that it could be rhyming slang of it’s own, derived form the song lyrics, Do ray me far so la te do.
    “Do, ray, me”. . . Mon-ey.

  5. Doc:

    December 3rd, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    Doughboy is also cockney slang for a heavy punch or blow…my mum would always say to me as a kid “i’ll give you such a doughboy in a minute”

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