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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 Now generally superseded by squaddie.1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Swoddy or Swod-gill, a soldier. 1828 Sporting Mag.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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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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squaddie
squaddie Services' slang. (ˈskwɒdɪ) Also squaddy. [f. squad n.1 + -ie, perh. influenced by swaddy n.] A member of a squad; a private soldier; a recruit. Also transf.1933 G. Ingram Stir xvi. 254 You get the screws and squaddies to shoot at us! Why, you're—well mad, you are. 1943 Hunt & Pringle Servic...
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red herring
red herring [Cf. herring 1 b.] 1. a. collect. Herring to which a red colour is imparted in the process of curing them by smoke.c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 54 Cover þy white heryng..þen cover red heryng and set abufe. 1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 207 Paid..for j. cade of rede herynge vs. 1577 B....
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pox
▪ I. pox, n. (pɒks) [An altered spelling of pocks, pl. of pock n., used collectively as name of a disease (cf. measles, mumps, rickets, etc.), and at length as a singular.] 1. Name for several different diseases characterized by ‘pocks’ or eruptive pustules on the skin: see pock n. 2 a. a. Undefined...
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dosse
▪ I. † doss, n.1 Obs. Also 5 doce. [a. F. dos:—late L. *dossum, for dorsum back.] = dorse n.1 1, dosser1 1.1482 Ld. Beauchamp Will, Doce and redoce of red velvet. c 1490 Promp. Parv. 127/2 (MS. K.) Dosse, dossorium. 1533 Coronat. Q. Anne in Arb. Garner (1879) II. 50 The blue 'ray cloth spread from t...
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