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Soger vs Soder - What's the difference?

soger | soder |

As nouns the difference between soger and soder

is that soger is (dated) a poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel while soder is .

soger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.
  • * {{quote-book, 1834, , Two Years Before the Mast
    • , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, a. 1900, chapter=Hanging Johnny, title=Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, editors=Ivan Walton et al. citation
    • , passage=I'd hang a lazy soger / The same as any other.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1902, Louis Becke, The Jalasco Brig citation
    • , passage=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
  • (chiefly, Scotland)

    • Anagrams

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    soder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1839 , Chapin Aaron Harris, The Dental Art (page 353)
    • In such a case, pieces of gold should be sodered on to it, until it be made to fit up to the teeth
    (Webster 1913)