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单词 dough face
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dough facen.

Brit. /ˈdəʊ feɪs/, U.S. /ˈdoʊ ˌfeɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dough n., face n.
Etymology: < dough n. + face n.
1. A face resembling dough in colour or appearance; a pale, plump, or bloated face.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]
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vizard1568
monkey-face?1589
chitty-face1601
angel face1605
smock-face1605
fish-facea1625
platter face1631
ammunition face1649
horn-facea1668
baby facea1684
crab face1706
hatchet face1707
splatter-face1707
paddock-face1724
pudding face1748
dough face1755
Madonna face1790
company face1798
moon-face1822
pug-facea1845
puss1844
frog-face1872
bun-face1913
bitch face1969
1755 J. Kidgell Card II. ix. 130 [He] tacked his bloated dough Face to Miss Merrison's odious Fly all about the Walks till Midnight.
1826 Album & Ladies' Weekly Gaz. (Philadelphia) 8 Nov. 5/2 Now long noses have blue tips, and are afflicted with palsy. Dough-faces come into vogue, and benumbed fingers seek refuge.
1844 G. W. Featherstonhaugh Excursion through Slave States II. xxxviii. 242 Smith, the New Englander, with his pale dough face, every feature of which was a proclamation of bully, sneak, and scoundrel.
1954 A. Parish And have not Love vi. 63 Dan and his plump wife Dora, with currant eyes in a dough face, had seven children.
2017 A. Camerota Amanda wakes Up x. 88 He had a fleshy dough face,..making him look younger than his fifty-plus years.
2. U.S. regional (chiefly southern). A mask, originally made of dough, later of papier mâché or paper, typically of a grotesque or frightening appearance. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > mask > types of
dough face1806
maskette1881
maskoid1881
sleeping-mask1908
ski-mask1973
1806 N.-Y. Gaz. & Gen. Advertiser 10 Apr. A party of the Pennsylvania delegation..dressed up one of the honorable corps..with a dough face, so as to represent the devil, who all at once rushing into Sloan’s room, seized him by the neck and shoulders with great violence.
1861 C. Henry Jrnl. 24 Dec. in Fear in N. Carolina (2008) 50 They did frighten Mary Taylor & Jim Parker, give them a race with a dough face & sheet.
1872 Testimony Joint Select Comm. Condition of Affairs Late Insurrectionary States: S. Carolina 667 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Rep. 22, Pt. 4) II They had little pieces of paper on their faces—dough faces—that came that far.
1883 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-boy xviii. 120 Two boys from the neighborhood, who had joined the party, agreed to furnish dough-faces for them all.
1904 Christian Observer 9 Nov. 20/4 His dough face was slowly slipping down and a wisp of brown hair was already visible.
1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter ii. i. 116 One boy had..put on a dough-face bought in advance for Hallowe'een.
3. U.S. Politics (derogatory). In the period before or during the American Civil War (1861–5): a Member of Congress from a northern state who supports the South in its political aims, esp. the continuance of slavery; (hence also) any northerner who is supportive of or sympathetic to the interests of the Southern states in the same period. Now historical.Apparently after John Randolph of Roanoke's use of the term (see quots. 18201, 18202) ridiculing the cowardice of northern Members of Congress who, despite their abolitionist principles, voted with the Southern states for the Missouri Compromise (cf. Missouri Compromise n. at Missouri n. and adj. Compounds 2). This was probably a figurative use of sense 2 and may have referred back to an incident in April 1806 (see quot. 1806 at sense 2) which targeted James Sloan, an opponent of Randolph.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of
well-born1629
liberty boy1766
federalist1787
anti1788
Fed1788
monocrat1792
anti-federal1805
blue light1814
dough face1820
colonizationist1823
slavite1831
hunker1849
states' righter1861
slavist1889
Little American1899
New Frontiersman1923
America Firster1927
new federalist1969
angry white male1991
angry white man1993
AWM1994
1820 Let. 3 Mar. in Franklin Herald (Greenfield, Mass.) 21 Mar. Randolph..said, ‘I knew these would give way. They were scared at their own dough faces!.. We had them.’
1820 New-Hampsh. Gaz. 14 Mar. 3 One of the opposition, Mr. Randolph..said, ‘they got scared. They saw their dough faces in the glass, and were frightened and voted against restriction.’]
1820 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 7 Oct. The returns of votes for Mr. Bridgham, who was supported in opposition to Mr. Eddy, another of the ‘dough faces’, very nearly equals those given the latter.
1830 Boston Transcript 6 Dec. 2/3 The protecting duty will be repealed, if the anti-tariff party can get enough dough faces to join them.
1834 J. G. Whittier Let. to Sewall in Prose Wks. (1889) III. 87 How familiar have the significant epithets of ‘White slave’ and ‘dough-face’ become!
1850 Congress. Globe 21 Feb. 399/3 Every man in the North who does not believe it to be his duty to enter into a crusade against the South, and to cover the country with blood..to abolish slavery, is considered by..his fellow-citizens as a dough-face.
1862 ‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines 63 ‘If thar's ony thing on airth that I uttarly dispise it ar a Northern dough-face, and it's clar yer one on 'em.’ ‘There, my friend, you're mistaken. I'm neither an Abolitionist nor a dough-face.’
1886 American 12 279 In the North the doughface press that once abjectly echoed the plantation formula is happily almost extinct.
2012 S. R. Nelson Nation of Deadbeats vii. 136 The doughfaces looked like free northern men but quoted the lines given them by their pro-slavery southern backers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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