dough-face

obsolete During the US Civil War, a Northerner with a sympathetic view of the South and slavery. A lot of dough-faces were driven by greed—slave labor would have made them a lot of money. Even in a town full of abolitionists, it seems there's still a dough-face or two looking to profiteer off of slavery. A: "That dough-face plans to sabotage the Union cause, doesn't he?" B: "What do you expect? He's a transplant from the South."