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单词 foot wobbler
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foot wobbler
foot wobbler n. Obsolete slang (depreciative) a foot soldier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > foot-soldier
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page?a1400
pieton?1473
foot soldier1587
rondache1607
peon1609
tolpatch1705
foot wobbler1785
wobbler1785
doughboy1835
fantassin1835
mud-crusher1864
web foot1866
grabby1868
infantryman1883
flat-foot1889
gravel-crusher1889
foot-slogger1894
PBI1916
mud-slogger1936
infanteer1944
leg1969
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Foot wabler, a contemptuous appellation for a foot soldier, commonly used by the cavalry.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xiv. 187 I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. View more context for this quotation
1837 Tait's Mag. Feb. 126/1 Since the day that a cavalier and ‘foot-wobbler’ were first arrayed together in order of battle.
1882 United Service Apr. 440 Fantoccino..is almost a parallel to such derogatory epithets applied to the infantry by the cavalry,—as ‘mud-mashers’, ‘foot-wobblers’, etc.
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