sodger
/ (ˈsodʒər) /
noun, verb
a dialect variant of soldier
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How to use sodger in a sentence
But a sodger's life has both shade and sunshine in it; and the Major is now a little in the shade.
Horse-Shoe Robinson | John Pendleton KennedyNow, as Major Butler is a good man and a brave sodger—God bless him!
Horse-Shoe Robinson | John Pendleton KennedyHe was a brave sodger, but he wasna long fechtin' in France till he got a bullet in his breist.
Huntingtower | John BuchanAs in solder, the l has been re-introduced by learned influence, but the vulgar sodger is nearer the original pronunciation.
The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest WeekleyMaybe I'm to 'list and be a sodger; faix, it wouldn't be much worse than going back to your grandfather.
Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. | Charles James Lever
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