Zou-Zoun.
/ˈzuːzuː/ colloquial (now historical).
= Zouave n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific
Jersey blue1758
shirtman1775
Yorker1776
buckskin1783
Indian fighter1824
blue belly1827
greyback1854
Zouave1860
Zou-Zou1860
greycoat1861
grey1862
Johnny1862
Johnny Reb1862
blue1870
blue coat1885
dogface1932
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [adjective] > specific American
Zou-Zou1944
1860 Leisure Hour 15 Mar. 190/2 The gamins of Paris, we believe, first applied to the world-renowned Zouaves the pet name of Zous-Zous; and France has confirmed the pleasant diminutive.
1863 Harper's Mag. Mar. 569/2 A zou-zou..found himself arrested by the guard.
1866 L. P. Brockett Camp, Battlefield, & Hosp. iii. 458 He soon after moved off, followed by the Zou-zous.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. vi. 208 In the formal dusty gardens were the same pioupious and zouzous still walking with the same nounous.
1944 J. S. Pennell Hist. Rome Hanks 70 Tom thought it was the boy who sang the Zu-Zu song at the creek.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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