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Definition of Soger
1. n. & v. i. Var. of Soldier.
Definition of Soger
1. Noun. (dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly Scotland) (dialect form of soldier) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soger
1. a soldier [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soger
Literary usage of Soger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Is the Negro Making Good? Or, Have Fifty Years of History Vindicated the by Charles Edward Locke (1913)
"... soger! Come down! I pull off yo' shoes an' I drap 'm down de hole, Den rub my
feet wid sas'fras, an' clim' up on de knoll, ..."
2. Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers: Embracing by John Harrison Mills (1887)
"A Counter-march, described by " Bould soger."—The Second Day's March.—Making
Coffee.—Elk Run.—Defeat of Banks.—From Catlett's to Markham Station, by Rail, ..."
3. The Scottish Songs by Robert Chambers (1829)
"My doughtie laddie is handsome and brave, And can as a soger and lover behave ;
True to his country, to love he is steady; There's few to compare with my ..."
4. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"THE soger LADDIE. (Burns.) I ONCE was a maid, though I cannot tell when, And
still my delight is in proper young men j Some one, of a troop of dragoons, ..."
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