sodger

/ (ˈsodʒər) /

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noun, verb

a dialect variant of soldier

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby sodger

sodden, sod disease, soddy, Söderblom, Södertälje, sodger, sod house, sodic, sodio-, sodium, sodium amide

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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.
The Romance of Words (4th ed.)|Ernest Weekley

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