Soger

Full definition of soger

Noun

1. (dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.
• The captain called him a "soger," and promised to "ride him down as he would the main tack;" and when officers are once determined to "ride a man down," it is a gone case with him.
• Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors Chapter Hanging Johnny, I'd hang a lazy soger
  The same as any other.
• Come aft, you lazy soger, an' see what de captain has to say 'bout dis," cried Worcester, pushing the man, who still grasped his knife, before him ...
2. (chiefly Scotland) Eye dialect of soldier

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• goers, gores, gorse, ogres, regos