DOUGHFACE


Meaning of DOUGHFACE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌfās ]

noun

Date: 1830

: a Northern congressman not opposed to slavery in the South before or during the American Civil War ; also : a Northerner sympathetic to the South during the same period

• dough-faced -ˈfāst adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.