sodger

/ (ˈsodʒər) /


noun, verb
  1. 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 Kennedy
  • Now, as Major Butler is a good man and a brave sodger—God bless him!

    Horse-Shoe Robinson | John Pendleton Kennedy
  • He was a brave sodger, but he wasna long fechtin' in France till he got a bullet in his breist.

    Huntingtower | John Buchan
  • As in solder, the l has been re-introduced by learned influence, but the vulgar sodger is nearer the original pronunciation.

  • Maybe 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