单词 | dough face |
释义 | dough facen. 1. A face resembling dough in colour or appearance; a pale, plump, or bloated face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] muskin1530 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 A mask, originally made of dough, later of papier mâché or paper, typically of a grotesque or frightening appearance.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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1755 |
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