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Definition: DOUGHFACE |
DOUGHFACENoun1. A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. |
Date "DOUGHFACE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irresolution | Waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; butterfly; wimp; doughface. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DOUGHFACE |
| English words defined with "DOUGHFACE": Doughfaceism. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "DOUGHFACE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | pessoa indolente. (various references) | |
Russian | слабохарактерный человек (softy), мягкотелый (molluscous). (various references) | |
Spanish | cara de masa. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слабохарактерна людина (impotent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DOUGHFACE": doughfaces. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-g-h-o-u" | |
-2 letters: coughed, dogface, gouache. | |
-3 letters: chafed, cohead, douche, gauche, gaucho, ouched. | |
-4 letters: ached, cadge, caged, chafe, chufa, coude, cough, decaf, defog, douce, dough, faced, fadge, faugh, fudge, guaco. | |
-5 letters: aced, ache, aged, ague, cade, cafe, cage, chad, chao, chef, chug, coda, code, coed, cued, dace, dago, deaf, deco, doge, duce, each, echo, egad, face, fade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-g-h-o-u" | |
+1 letter: doughfaces. | |
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