foot-sloggern.
/ˈfʊtslɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈfʊtˌslɑɡər/ Chiefly colloquial.
A person who foot-slogs; esp. a foot soldier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > foot-soldier
footmanc1325
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
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot
foota1225
footmana1382
walkerc1390
footera1425
ganger1424
trampler1580
foot folk1583
marcher1589
leg-stretcher1612
foot traveller1631
pedestrian1641
ambulator1652
foot walker1751
turnpiker1812
foot passenger1832
ped1863
voetganger1902
jaywalker1917
stepper1934
foot-slogger1956
1894 C. H. W. Donovan With Wilson in Matabeleland ix. 198 Some of the Johannesburg ‘Foot-Sloggers’..were doing damage in the village.
1929 Daily Tel. 1 Jan. 9/6 Do coroners think that footsloggers willingly ask for trouble?
1956 Washington Post 8 June 64/6 Any professed outdoorsman who stays at home this weekend just isn't a bona fide foot-slogger.
1977 Guardian 30 Dec. 13/1 The modern Briton is a free-wheeling foot-slogger who is becoming adept at cadging lifts in cars.
2014 G. J. Bonham Long Road to Happiness 293 His orders had been explicit: to patch up both officers and the poor foot-sloggers and return them to battle as soon as possible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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