单词 | mud-slogger |
释义 | mud-sloggern. U.S. Military slang. An infantry soldier; = mud-crusher n. ΘΚΠ 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 1936 W. J. Reddan Other Men's Lives p. ix Definitions of Army Expressions... ‘Mud Sloggers’. The Infantry. 1959 in B. I. Wiley They who fought Here i. 14 Out of the way, mud-sloggers, and give the real fighters a chance. 1971 I. Faust Willy Remembers 192 I got Frank into the Signal Corps, where at least he would not be a mud slogger. 1997 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 2 Mar. h1 The soldier's lament runs through all the ages of war. Rained on and yelled at, alternately terrified and bored, the common mud-slogger longs for home and comfort. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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