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ˈdough-face, doughface U.S.
1. A mask made of dough. Also transf.
1809Deb. Congress U.S. 23 Feb. (1853) 1509 It is something like dressing ourselves up in a dough-face and winding-sheet to frighten others. 1820Massachusetts Spy 22 Mar. (Th.), They saw their dough faces in the glass and were frightened. a1833J. Randolph Sp. in Congress (Bartlett), They were scared at their own dough-faces. 1883E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Boy xviii. 120 Two boys from the neighborhood, who had joined the party, agreed to furnish dough-faces for them all. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1943) ii. i. 98 One boy had..put on a dough-face bought in advance for Hallowe'een.
2. A dough-faced person; one who allows himself to be moulded or worked upon; formerly, in U.S. politics, applied to Northern politicians considered to yield undue compliance to the South, in the matter of slavery, etc.
[1820New Brunswick Times 13 Apr. (Th.), [John Randolph of Roanoke] said, ‘I knew these would give way. They were scared at their own dough faces... We had them.’ ]1830Boston Transcript 6 Dec. 2/3 The protecting duty will be repealed, if the anti-tariff party can get enough dough faces to join them. 1834Whittier Let. to Sewall Pr. Wks. 1889 III. 87 How familiar have the significant epithets of ‘White slave’ and ‘dough-face’ become! 1848Lowell Biglow P. Poet. Wks. 1890 II. 80. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 42 Behold the great doughface cringing before the calm eye of Kossuth.
attrib.1886American XII. 279 The doughface press.
So ˈdough-faced a., having a face like dough; of the character of a ‘dough-face’ in U.S. politics.
1792Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tears of St. Margaret Wks. 1812 III. 81 The dough-faced Spectres crowded forth. 1848New York Comm. Adv. 4 June (Bartlett) Two-third of the senate were dough-faced. |