| 单词 | foot wobbler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot wobbler 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 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Foot wabler, a contemptuous appellation for a foot soldier, commonly used by the cavalry. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xiv. 187 I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them. View more context for this quotation 1837 Tait's Mag. Feb. 126/1 Since the day that a cavalier and ‘foot-wobbler’ were first arrayed together in order of battle. 1882 United Service Apr. 440 Fantoccino..is almost a parallel to such derogatory epithets applied to the infantry by the cavalry,—as ‘mud-mashers’, ‘foot-wobblers’, etc. < as lemmas |
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