foot-slog, v.
(ˈfʊtslɒg)
[f. foot n. + slog v. 2.]
intr. To go on foot; to tramp, march. Also with it. Hence ˈfoot-slog n., a tramp, march; ˈfoot-ˌslogger, a foot-soldier, infantryman, pedestrian; ˈfoot-ˌslogging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1894 C. H. W. Donovan With Wilson in Matabeleland ix. 198 Some of the Johannesburg ‘Foot-Sloggers’..were doing damage in the village. 1899 Kipling Five Nations (1903) 185 We're foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin' over Africa! 1906 Macm. Mag. Apr. 472 Must get in and foot⁓slog it, that's all. 1916 ‘Peter’ Trench Yarns iv. 34 I'm not a Shop gunner, y'know. I'm only a miserable foot⁓slogger! 1921 E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott vi. 89 There were people who preferred foot-slogging to ski at any time. 1925 B. Travers Mischief viii, Another long foot-slog..in squelching shoes. 1927 Chambers's Jrnl. June 392/1, I..had to foot-slog until I could find a British Consul to borrow from. 1928 Observer 26 Feb. 6/3 A world where people travel by preference footslogging. 1928 Sunday Express 28 Oct. 14/3 A long, long way to Berlin, especially for the poor bally foot-sloggers who did the fighting and the dying. 1929 Daily Tel. 1 Jan. 9/6 Do coroners think that footsloggers willingly ask for trouble? 1939 War Illustr. 7 Oct. 98/3 Their speed..was not that of foot-slogging infantry but of motorized columns. |