Usually means: Politician appeasing South on slavery.
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  1. doughface: Merriam-Webster
  2. doughface: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. doughface: Collins English Dictionary
  4. doughface: Wordnik
  5. doughface: Wiktionary
  6. doughface: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. doughface: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Doughface, doughface: Dictionary.com
  9. Doughface: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Doughface: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. doughface: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Doughface: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. doughface: FreeDictionary.org
  14. doughface: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See dough-faced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (doughface)

noun:  (derogatory) A person, especially a politician, who is perceived to be pliable or moldable.
noun:  In particular, in the antebellum United States, a Northerner who espoused sympathies with the Southern Slave Power, especially a Northern Democrat who was more allied with the ideology of Southern Democrats than that of the majority of Northerners.
noun:  (dated, obsolete, derogatory) A face that resembles dough in its appearance or color; a face that is bloated, pale or plump.

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