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sodger

British  
/ ˈsodʒər /

noun

  1. a dialect variant of soldier

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lost to a sodger, Gone is my heart!

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A sodger ought to snatch his rest when he can get it.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

"Aweel, I wat, that I can; but what's that?" pointing to the straps of my knapsack;—"are ye a sodger on the Queen's account, or ye'r ain?"

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

There's some reason for thinkin' the one who wasn't a sodger was a person o' consequence—a man o' valuable property that may be useful during the siege as well as after.

From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Frank Baird

It 'as long been my opinion, as a sodger and a man, That I couldn't get on proper, not without yer, Sairey Ann.

From Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces by Various

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