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SWADDY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SWADDY is soldier.
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SWADDY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
British slang a private soldier → Compare squaddie.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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swaddy, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun swaddy is in the 1810s. OED's earliest evidence for swaddy is from 1819, in the writing of James Vaux. swaddy ...
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swaddy
▪ I. swaddy, n. slang. (ˈswɒdɪ) Also swaddie, swoddy; cf. swatty. [f. swad n.5 + -y.] A soldier. Now generally superseded by squaddie.1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Swoddy or Swod-gill, a soldier. 1828 Sporting Mag. XXIII. 176 In one of his journies from Lewes, Tom picked up some swaddies. 1867 Smyth ...
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swaddy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A soldier, especially a militiaman. Anagrams. edit · Dawdys, Waddys.
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swaddy - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
swaddy, swaddie /ˈswɒdɪ/ n ( pl -dies). Brit slang a private soldier. Compare squaddie. Etymology: 19th Century: from dialect swad a country bumpkin.
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swaddy, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
Sl. Dict. 315: Swaddy, or coolie a soldier. The former was originally applied to a discharged soldier, and perhaps came from shoddy, which is made from soldiers ...
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SWADDY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Swaddy, swod′i, n. a soldier, esp. a militiaman. From Project Gutenberg. That's the worst o' being a swaddy on dooty.
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Swaddy/swaddie - WW2Talk
I am curious about the term 'swaddie' or 'swaddy' (referrring to a British rank-and-file soldier), which eventually morphed into today's 'squaddie.'
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swaddy, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective swaddy. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is undergoing ...
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definition of swaddy by The Free Dictionary
Define swaddy. swaddy synonyms, swaddy pronunciation, swaddy translation, English dictionary definition of swaddy. or n , pl -dies slang Brit a private ...
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swabby
ˈswabby, a. rare—0. [f. swab n.2 + -y. Cf. swaddy a.] Having pods or husks.1659 Torriano, Swabbie, scaffoso.
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swatty
swatty U.S. slang. (ˈswɒtɪ) = swaddy n.1901 H. W. Phillips Red Saunders 4 A flat-faced swatty at Fort Johnson halted me. 1901 Munsey's Mag. XXIV. 481/2 A stray ‘swatty’ or two going back and forth between the post and Stringtown.
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swad
▪ I. swad, n.1 dial. (eastern). Also swod. [Local variant of sward n. Cf. swathe2.] = sward n. 1, 2.c 1460 Promp. Parv. (Winch.) 445 Swad, or sward of flesh, coriana. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Swad, Swod..(2) The swarth or skin of bacon... Swarth, Swath, Sward, Swad, grass-land. 1895 Gloss. E. Anglia ...
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